Today, users of this product are asking questions. Like Mathieu, 44, who wonders at the microphone of RMC, if there is a link between his lymph node cancer and the defective machines. “I learned by chance that there was a recall campaign for my sleep apnea device,” he says.
“Philips will become the Mediator of breathing”
“Why wasn’t I warned? And of course, the most important question is whether the machine is responsible for my cancer. I have the impression of being in a science fiction film, ”he breathes with our colleagues. However, eight months after the announcement of the discovery of defective devices by Philips, only 25,000 machines have been recovered in France, or just over 6% of the 370,000 machines concerned.
Contacted by RMC, the associations are indignant. “It is a health scandal that we are covering up for financial reasons. Philips will become the Pick of breathing, I say it loud and clear”, denounces Christian Trouchot, the president of Airas, an association of respiratory insufficiency.