France is forcing Philips to prioritise French apnea patients over European ones
Hundreds of thousands of European patients use a Philips apnea device that might be making them ill. Philips promised to replace the devices, but declines to say how many have so far been replaced in each EU country. Follow the Money contacted all European supervisors and discovered that Philips’ replacement effort hasn’t yet properly got under way everywhere. So far, only France has taken a tough stance. They do so with the risk of putting patients in other countries at a disadvantage.