1, a life-saving medicine more expensive than gold. Before 2002, Lu Yong was an ordinary businessman. He left the state-owned foreign trade company where he worked two years ago and started a business in Wuxi, a small Zhensheng Knitwear Co., Ltd., which is his stable life.
Like all ordinary people, Lu Yong has no big dreams. He works seriously, stresses credibility and earns credibility. He hopes that the company's business will be smooth and his family will be happy and healthy. But in 2002, fate hit him hard.
Everything is not without warning. In the past six months, Lu Yong has always felt that there is something wrong with his body. Although there was no obvious pain, he was weak and exhausted. He wakes up at night, his pillow towel is wet with night sweats, his clothes are sticky and uncomfortable, and he is getting thinner every day for no reason.
At first, Lu Yong thought the company was busy and tired. After a short rest, the situation is not good. In August 2002, he went to the hospital for examination, and a bolt from the blue hit him on the head. He is terminally ill.
The days of high-priced life began. Every time Lu Yong takes out a small pill and swallows it, he feels that he is not taking medicine, but swallowing money. From August 2020 to June 2004, the procurement cost in Lu Yong was as high as 564,000.
2. From 2 1000 box to 2 1 box, the feeling of sitting on an empty mountain is really desperate. Although Lu Yong is dragging his illness and trying to run the company, the high cost of medicine still makes him unbearable.
When Lu Yong learned that he was ill, he set up a QQ group to let people in the same boat get together to share their illness and support each other. What the group said most was medicine.
For chronic myeloid leukemia, Gleevec was the most advanced drug at that time. As long as you take it regularly every day, cancer cells can be controlled, and life is no different from ordinary people. But it's too expensive, and few people in the group can afford it. Some people don't flash their heads when chatting, but they are "gone" when asked.
At this time, the crowd fell silent, mourning for the dead patients and worrying about their own fate, unable to take medicine and waiting for death.
By chance, Lu Yong heard that there was an Indian imitation of Gleevec, which had the same curative effect as Gleevec, but the price was only 4,000 yuan per box. Lu Yong, who was overwhelmed by the cost of medicine, immediately decided to buy a box to try.
It is inconvenient to buy medicine in India. Fortunately, a Japanese client I know in Lu Yong has this channel to help him buy medicine. He tried taking it for two months and found that all the indexes of his body were normal. This medicine really works!
In August 2004, Lu Yong shared the news with his patients, and the group suddenly exploded. People wandering at the door of death finally saw a glimmer of hope for survival.
Cross-border drug purchase procedures are cumbersome, and most people don't know how to communicate with Indian companies and how to send money to get drugs. Several patients asked Lu Yong to help them buy medicine, and Lu Yong agreed. I want to buy it myself anyway, so buy more boxes. The drug effect is really good, and more and more people turn to Lu Yong for help, because the condition of chronic myeloid leukemia is urgent, and once it turns into acute phase, the immortal is hard to save.
When there were many buyers, Lu Yong made a deal with Indian manufacturers. He knows that although the price of this generic drug is only a quarter of the genuine one, many patients still can't afford the cost of several thousand dollars a month. Lu Yong and the manufacturer repeatedly grind, from 4000 to 2000, and then to 800. Later, the group purchase price he got dropped to about 200 yuan per box.
From 20,000 to 200, how much wealth did Lu Yong save thousands of patients? How many people who can't afford Gleevec have extended their lives? He doesn't know, but in the patient's mind, he is already a life-saving "medicine god".
But unlike dying to survive, Lu Yong didn't make a profit for himself from the beginning. He helped to buy medicine simply because he was warm-hearted and wanted to make some contributions to people who suffered as much as himself. He calls himself a witch doctor, but he doesn't think his heroic behavior will lead to imprisonment.
In the contest between law and emotion, Lu Yong was supported by many people. Someone left an emotional message: "Don't let those who pay for everyone freeze in the wind." He is not a drug god, but he did keep many people alive.
Fortunately, after Lu Yong regained his freedom, Gleevec's patent period has expired, and it is no longer a high-priced medicine that ordinary people can't afford. Lu Yong's situation has been very stable, and his company is booming, providing 65,438+00,000 pairs of etiquette gloves for the Dutch royal family.
During the COVID-19 epidemic, Lu Yong went to India to buy thousands of goggles and N95 masks, which were shipped back to China the day before the Indian embargo and donated to hospitals.
He is still fighting in his own way. May the world be less morbid and warmer.