Chapter 20 Should I go to the Purchasing Department?
Obviously, no one who can be a leader is a simple role, so Dean Shen smiled and looked at Lin Sanqi again:
"Comrade Lin Sanqi, since you're taking over your mother's job, and she doesn't want you to work too hard, why don't you go to the hospital library? You just clean up, sort out books, and register borrowed books. It's not that hard work, is it?"
Lin Kucan and Jin Caifeng were delighted when they heard this. This library is great. It is sheltered from the wind and rain, and no one will notice if they take a nap in it.
These days, everyone has a fixed salary, so it doesn't matter how much you work.
But Lin Sanqi refused to do it.
Moreover, as a librarian, I have to work from nine to five every day and don’t even have the opportunity to earn extra money. How can I make a fortune from traveling through the golden finger?
Did I travel through time and space just to receive a salary of more than 30 yuan a month?
Are you kidding me?
Lin Sanqi made up his mind that he would never do such a job with no pursuit, no future and no passion.
"Dean Shen, Dad, Mom, I, I don't want to work in the library. You all know that I've been wandering around for ten years, and my mind has long been wild. I can't do this job of sitting there in front of books every day!"
Jin Caifeng was unhappy. This was a good job that she had exchanged for her retirement. How could she just give it up?
"Hey kid, this is a great job that others can't even ask for. Listen to your mother and let's go to the library."
Dean Shen also frowned, thinking that the youngest son of the Lin family was a little troublemaker. He had to obey the organization's arrangements for what position to take, so how could he be picky?
"Comrade Lin Sanqi, we are all bricks of the revolution. We will go wherever the organization needs us to go, but we must obey the organization's arrangements first."
Lin Sanqi was also a little embarrassed, so he scratched his head:
"Dean, I just want to know if there's a job with more freedom where I can be out and about all day. I'm still young, so why would I want to retire in a library?"
Well, this seems to make sense!
Dean Shen thought to himself that he might have wrongly blamed the Lin family boy, so his face became smiling again:
"Young comrade, you have a pretty good ideological consciousness. If you really want to go out, there's a good job available. Why don't you go to the purchasing department?"
"Purchasing Department?"
Lin Kucan and Jin Caifeng were insiders in the industry, so they were the first to frown when they heard about going to the purchasing department, but Lin Sanqi's eyes lit up when he heard it.
Not only do enterprises have purchasing and supply and marketing departments, but hospitals also have purchasing departments. This should be a feature of the 1950s and 1960s.
Before liberation, the supply channels of major Chinese medicine clinics and medicine shops in China were controlled by a few wholesalers.
After all, Chinese medicine clinics and drug stores are private workshops, and the amount used will not be too much. It is impossible for them to send people to purchase hundreds of Chinese medicinal materials themselves.
After liberation, all private wholesalers or businesses were dissolved, which meant that the industrial chain of traditional Chinese medicine from the field to the hospital was broken, and the wholesalers in the middle disappeared.
The country was newly established and there was a lot of work to be done. In addition, medicinal materials and agricultural and sideline products were similar, so there was a supply and marketing system temporarily responsible for acting as a "wholesaler".
The operating model is that the supply and marketing cooperatives place purchase orders with farmers or medicinal farmers, collect them like vegetables and radishes, and then the traditional Chinese medicine hospitals purchase them from the supply and marketing cooperatives.
But there is another problem here.
Medicine and pharmacy are highly specialized fields.
The preparation, storage, transportation, etc. of Chinese medicinal materials also require the care of professionals. Ordinary supply and marketing staff do not know how to handle it at all, resulting in the very poor quality of Chinese medicinal materials.
There is another issue, which is the grading of Chinese medicinal materials.
The same medicinal material can be divided into good and bad grades. Chinese medicinal materials are divided into five levels: special grade, first grade, second grade, third grade and fourth grade.
Each level has corresponding standards, and the efficacy and price are also completely different. If grading and identification are required, professionals are also needed.
But the supply and marketing cooperative staff didn't care. Whether it was a special grade or a fourth grade product, they just packed it all into sacks and took it away.
This also means that after the Chinese medicinal materials are sold to hospitals, the hospitals have to spend a lot of time and manpower to classify and re-prepare them, but the consumption and losses involved have to be borne by the hospitals themselves.
You can't expect unprofessional people to have much sense of responsibility, right?
If it's just a matter of responsibility, it's fine. At least you can still buy the herbs.
Like the Chinese medicine shops before liberation, the stock of Chinese medicinal materials generally ranged from 300 to 500 kinds.
After liberation, top hospitals like Kuanjie Chinese Medicine Hospital needed a wide range of medicinal materials, about 700 kinds, because the doctors used many folk prescriptions and secret recipes.
The National Supply and Marketing Cooperatives only sell 105 varieties of medicinal materials. Not only are the varieties few and the quality poor, but there is also a problem with the quantity.
The supply and marketing cooperatives purchase from farmers based on specific quotas: if they want 1,000 jin, they will buy 1,000 jin, not a jin more.
But this is not the case in clinical practice. The number of patients increases and decreases dynamically and randomly.
Perhaps one thousand kilograms of a certain medicinal material is enough this year, but next year there will be more patients and clinical usage will increase. The hospital will need two thousand kilograms, but the supply and marketing cooperative can only provide one thousand kilograms, and the rest will be a gap, which creates a contradiction.
At the same time, Chinese medicinal materials are small local products with a wide variety and strong regional characteristics, and are distributed throughout the country.
Compared with bulk agricultural products such as grain, oil, and cotton, although their economic value is small, their production areas are scattered, their substitutability is poor, their procurement is complex, and they often require long-distance cross-regional trade.
The supply and marketing cooperatives have to manage all the goods in the country. How can they have the time and manpower to serve your hospital specifically? You use what you are given. They don't have time to deal with you.
It's embarrassing that the hospital has no medicine.
A famous Chinese doctor wrote out a prescription, but it was missing this medicine and that medicine. How could he treat the disease?
For some special prescriptions, missing one ingredient can make a huge difference in the effect.
The government has no good solution to this contradiction between supply and demand. After all, the supply and marketing cooperatives are too large and are responsible for the circulation of goods in an entire country.
There were also pharmaceutical companies in the 1950s, but these companies were mainly engaged in Western medicine and medical devices, and did not involve traditional Chinese medicine.
what to do?
In philosophical terms: a contradiction has arisen between the people's growing material and cultural needs and backward social production.
So the superiors came up with a policy: open a free market for medicinal materials.
That is, your Chinese medicine hospital can purchase the Chinese medicinal materials you need in the name of the hospital, and can place purchase orders directly with various herbal farmers' cooperatives and local supply and marketing cooperatives.
Of course, it is not completely free. You can only use public to public, not public to private, or private to private.
Thus, the hospital’s “Purchasing Department” was established.
(End of this chapter)
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