A doctor who travels through two eras

After hanging up the phone, Secretary Xiaofang gave the call record to Minister Li. The old lady put on her reading glasses and looked at it carefully.

Dean Shen was beside him, beaming with pride:

"Well, Minister, we didn't lie, did we? When do you think we're going to report this to the central government?"

Minister Li put down his glasses, his face looked a little serious, but there was a little more smile in his eyes.

"Old Shen, there is no rush to report to the central government. I still say that we must seek truth from facts. So, I will immediately ask the Changping Post and Telecommunications Bureau to bring a few telephones over, and then ask all the young people in the department to come to Changping.

You have 5000 files, so you should find and ask every patient if you can get through by phone. If you can't get through by phone, you should arrange for someone to go to the patient's workplace or home to verify, and not leave any one behind.

Lao Shen, Xiao Lin, please don't blame me for being too rigid. Tuberculosis treatment is a big deal, a super satellite. If China is the first in the world to conquer tuberculosis, this will be the first time that my country has made a great contribution to world civilization, and it will make a sensation around the world.

So I must investigate thoroughly. If the information of these 5000 people is true, I will rush to the West Flower Hall to report it overnight. But if you have fabricated the information, I will rashly report it, which will cause an international scandal.

My personal reputation is a minor matter, but national honor is above all else, understand?"

Dean Shen and Lin Sanqi quickly stood at attention and nodded:
"Understood. Minister Li, please rest assured. You can check the information of these 5,000 people at will. We are absolutely confident."

Minister Li looked at the room full of medical records and nodded repeatedly:
"Okay, okay, okay! Oh, by the way, I almost forgot the most important thing. What kind of medicine do you use for treatment? Let me see it."

Pan Ye quickly brought a wooden box from next door. When the box was opened, everyone saw dark brown pills and could smell the faint scent of red dates.

Lin Sanqi personally introduced:
"Minister Li, this is the main medicine for treating tuberculosis, the tuberculosis pill. Patients only need to take one pill a day. It is very convenient."

Minister Li and other Ministry of Health leaders gathered around and picked up the pills to study them.

Deputy Minister Zhang is a medical major with some clinical experience, so he asked curiously:

"Comrade Xiaolin, is this the patented medicine you are talking about? This is a traditional Chinese medicine. Can our traditional Chinese medicine really cure tuberculosis? This is strange. Traditional Chinese medicine has been around for thousands of years. Why can't so many famous doctors and masters in history cure tuberculosis?"

Got it!
Lin Sanqi thought that the deputy minister himself did not believe in Chinese medicine and raised questions.

But this matter cannot be concealed. After all, foreigners do not believe in traditional medicine. Arrogant people in European and American Western countries only believe in modern medicine, evidence-based medicine, various laboratory data, and logical theoretical systems.

As I said, if you are not strong enough, you'd better follow the rules of the game, otherwise you will have no friends.

"Minister Zhang, in fact, Lung Tuberculosis Pills is a name in traditional Chinese medicine. The full name of my pill is Ethylamine Pyrazine Rifampicin Tablets. It contains four Western medicine pills and one Chinese medicine ingredient."

Deputy Minister Zhang smiled and said, "Ethylamine, Pyrazine, and Rifampicin Tablets. Wow, this name is complicated. Just by listening to the name, you know it is a Western medicine."

Lin Sanqi pinched the pill open, revealing a white tablet inside:

"The leaders guessed it right. You see, the white pill is not simple. It contains four drugs, namely isoniazid, pyrazinamide, rifampicin and ethambutol, which are four patented drugs.

According to our research, the combination of the above four drugs must be used to achieve the best therapeutic effect. If any one of them is replaced, the therapeutic effect will be much worse and may even affect the cure rate.

Among them, two drugs, isoniazid and pyrazinamide, have been successfully developed and marketed by foreign pharmaceutical companies, and the patents are not in our hands. The patents for rifampicin and ethambutol are in the hands of Lingnantang Pharmaceutical Company in Hong Kong.

When Vice Minister Zhang heard this, he was shocked:
"Oh, this is troublesome. You said that four drugs must be used in combination to treat tuberculosis, but you only have patents for two drugs. Now Western countries are sanctioning us. They don't allow us to use isoniazid and pyrazinamide. Then we are doomed."

Another deputy minister was a little strange:
"Why would it fail? At worst, we can just produce it ourselves. If they don't give us the patent, we won't use it. Isn't that too honest?"

"That's right. We seized so many weapons from the Japanese and used them for our own use without their consent."

"Hahaha, that's right. If you don't give it to me, I'll use it. So what?"

Deputy Director Zhang waved his hand:
"If we were confined to the domestic market, everything would be fine. But if the combination of these four drugs can really defeat tuberculosis, we would have to make it known to the world and announce it. If we were using other people's drugs without authorization, it would be a huge international scandal.

Even if we say that this is an experimental drug, we purchased it legally in the market and it is completely safe to use. The result is that we have advertised for foreign pharmaceutical companies for nothing, and the result is that they make a fortune with our papers, but we get nothing. "

The information room was in an uproar: "Why should they make money? We have the tuberculosis pills, and we can sell them too."

"We don't have a patent, so we can't sell it abroad. But foreign pharmaceutical companies will counterfeit our pills and sell them, and won't they make money?"

"Anyone who dares to use my medicine without our permission will be killed!"

"Yes, that doesn't make sense. We, the inventors of the tuberculosis cure, have to depend on others. Xiaolin, do you have any ideas?"

Minister Li is a highly educated person, so he still has concerns about patents:
"Yes, Xiaolin, what are you going to do? We can't let others get away with it for nothing, right?"

Lin Sanqi chuckled, took out a white pill from the pill box and said:

“I hadn’t thought of this before, but later I thought that these four drugs are necessary for the treatment of tuberculosis, and the patents for the other two are in the hands of imperialist pharmaceutical companies. In order to block us, they will never grant us patents.

So my family's Lingnantang Pharmaceutical Company will combine the ingredients of these four drugs to make a new four-in-one drug. Then we can play patent trolls and insist that this pyridoxine tablet is the original drug and change the name to tuberculosis pills. Lingnantang has already applied for a patent. "

When everyone heard this, their eyes lit up:
"Well, you're smart, it's just like the stew we have in our hometown, where we mix a lot of vegetables together and cook them together to make a new dish. It contains several ingredients, so you can't say it's your patent, right?"

Vice Minister Zhang has another concern:
"Xiao Lin, how do you produce the tuberculosis pills you mentioned? If it's a Western medicine, it would require a complete drug production line, but we don't have that in our country right now. By then, let alone the whole world, even if we use it domestically, it would be a huge amount."

Minister Li also sighed:
"Yes, the pharmaceutical industry in our country is really poor now. There were several pharmaceutical factories in Shanghai and Chongqing, but when the bald guy escaped, they were either demolished and moved away or blown up.

Now foreign countries are not selling us pharmaceutical equipment. What should we do if we have the prescription but cannot produce it? "

If Leader Jing was present, he would not worry at all: We don’t have it, but someone can get it, so what’s there to be afraid of?
Lin Sanqi was not worried about this problem at all. Even if we don’t have a production line, we have one.

"Minister Li, don't worry. I'm here to make a statement to you. Once you confirm that our Chinese medicine hospital has conquered tuberculosis and the central government announces it to the world, I will take charge of the drug production line and I will get it.

I can ask the Hong Kong Lingnan Hall Company to license the patent to our country for free, and I will also take charge of the production line. I guarantee that I can get it. Of course, it’s not free. It’s still the same as before. You can use domestic medicinal materials, wood, jade, and even antiques to offset it.”

Minister Li was delighted when he heard this:

"Xiao Lin, you are really a timely help to the Chinese Medicine Hospital. You said that I would trade you the production line with antiques?"

Lin Sanqi patted his chest and said, "I'll take care of what I said."

Originally, Lin Sanqi didn’t like antiques. After all, this was a pseudo-medical novel and he didn’t want to turn it into an antique novel.

But then he thought, in a few years the buzzing would start and many antiques and cultural relics would be destroyed. Rather than letting them be destroyed, it would be better to hand them over to him now.

Regardless of whether they are used for fake charity or fake donations in the future, or left as heirlooms to future generations, at least these cultural relics can be preserved. Isn't this a contribution to Chinese civilization?
"And Minister Li, I can assure you on behalf of the Hong Kong Lingnan Hall that if the country wants to export tuberculosis drugs in exchange for food or weapons, we will not charge a penny in patent fees and will fully support the construction of the motherland."

Minister Li and all the leaders of the Ministry of Health were excited:

"You mean, we can exchange medicine for food? And then Xiangjiang Lingnan Hall won't charge a penny of royalties?"

"Correct!"

Minister Li blushed with excitement. Is there anything more wonderful than exchanging medicine for food? So the old lady shouted anxiously:

"Why are you all just standing there? Hurry up and install the telephone line. Hurry up and find someone to go to various major units to find patients and verify. We must report to the central government as soon as possible and announce the good news that our country has conquered tuberculosis to the world as soon as possible!!!" (End of this chapter)