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, looking very proud:
"Well, Minister, we're not lying, are 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 hint of smile in his eyes.
"Old Shen, there's 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 have all the young people in the department come to Changping.
You have 5,000 files, don't you? If you can get through by phone, you have to find and question every patient. If you can't get through by phone, arrange for someone to visit the patient's workplace or home to verify. Don't leave any one behind.
Lao Shen, Xiao Lin, please don't blame me for being too rigid. Tuberculosis treatment is a major undertaking, a massive undertaking. If China were the first country in the world to conquer tuberculosis, it would be our country's first major contribution to world civilization, and it would resonate worldwide.
So I must investigate thoroughly. If the information on these 5,000 people is genuine, I will rush to the West Flower Hall to report it overnight. But if you have fabricated the information, my rash reporting would only create 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."
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 Lung Tuberculosis Pill. Patients only need to take one pill a day. It's very convenient."
Minister Li and other leaders from the Ministry of Health gathered around and picked up the pills to study them.
Deputy Minister Zhang was a medical graduate with some clinical experience, so he asked curiously:
"Comrade Xiaolin, is this the patented medicine you're talking about? This is a traditional Chinese medicine. Can it really cure tuberculosis? This is strange. Traditional Chinese medicine has been around for thousands of years. Why couldn't so many famous doctors and masters in history cure tuberculosis?"
have to!
Lin Sanqi thought that the deputy minister himself did not believe in traditional 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, actually, 'Pulmonary Tuberculosis Pills' is the name in Traditional Chinese Medicine. The full name of my pill is 'Ethylamine Pyrazine Rifaiyan Tablets'. It contains four Western medicine pills and one Chinese medicine ingredient."
Deputy Minister Zhang laughed and said, "Ethylamine, Pyrazine, and Rifampicin Tablets. Wow, that's a complicated name. Just by hearing the name, you know it's a Western medicine."
Lin Sanqi squeezed the pill open, revealing a white tablet inside:
"The leaders guessed it right. Look everyone, this white pill is not simple. It contains four drugs: isoniazid, pyrazinamide, rifampicin, and ethambutol. These are four patented drugs.
Our research has found that a combination of the above four drugs is necessary to achieve the best therapeutic effect. Replacing any one of them will significantly reduce the efficacy and even affect the cure rate.
Two of these drugs, isoniazid and pyrazinamide, have already been successfully developed and marketed by foreign pharmaceutical companies, and the patents are not held by us. The patents for rifampicin and ethambutol are held by the Hong Kong Lingnantang Pharmaceutical Company.
Vice Minister Zhang was shocked when he heard this:
"Oh, this is troublesome. You said that a combination of four drugs is necessary to treat tuberculosis, but you only have patents for two drugs. Now Western countries are sanctioning us. They won't allow us to use isoniazid and pyrazinamide. We're doomed."
Another deputy minister was a little surprised:
"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 back then and used them 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 country, everything would be easy.
But if the combination of these four drugs can really conquer tuberculosis, then it must be announced to the world. If we use other people's drugs without authorization, it will be a huge international scandal.
Even if we say it's an experimental drug, and we purchased it legally on the market, it's perfectly acceptable for us to use. The result is that we've been advertising for foreign pharmaceutical companies for nothing, and they've made a fortune using our research, while we've gained nothing."
The information room erupted in excitement: "Why should they make money? We already have the tuberculosis pills, and we can sell them too."
"We don't have a patent, so we can't sell it overseas. But foreign pharmaceutical companies will counterfeit our pills and sell them, but won't they make money?"
"Anyone who dares to use my medicine without our permission will be killed!"
"That's right, it doesn't make sense. We, the inventors of the tuberculosis cure, have to depend on others. Xiaolin, do you have any suggestions?"
Minister Li is a highly educated and academic person, so he still has concerns about patents:
"Yeah, Xiaolin, what are you going to do? We can't just 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 then I realized that these four drugs are essential for tuberculosis treatment, and the patents for the other two are in the hands of imperialist pharmaceutical companies. In order to block us, they will definitely not grant us patents.
So my family's Lingnantang Pharmaceutical Company will combine the ingredients of these four drugs to create a new four-in-one drug. Then we can play patent troll and insist that this pyridoxine tablet is the original drug and change the name to "Lung Tuberculosis Pills." Lingnantang has already applied for a patent.
When everyone heard this, their eyes lit up:
"Well, you're clever, kid. This is just like the stew we have back home. We combine a lot of vegetables and cook them together to create 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 are the tuberculosis pills you mentioned produced? 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, the quantity would be enormous."
Minister Li also sighed:
"Yes, the pharmaceutical industry in our country is really poor and empty. There used to be a few 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 won’t sell us pharmaceutical equipment. We have the prescription but can’t produce it. What should we do?”
If Leader Jing was present, he wouldn't 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. I will go and get it.
I can have the Hong Kong Lingnan Hall Company license its patent to us domestically for free, and I'll also take care of the production line. I guarantee it will be done. Of course, it's not free, but the old rules apply. You can use domestic medicinal herbs, wood, jade, or even antiques as a deduction."
Minister Li was delighted when he heard this:
"Xiao Lin, you're truly a timely help to the Chinese Medicine Hospital. You said you'd trade antiques for your production line?"
Lin Sanqi patted his chest and said, "I said, leave it to me."
Originally, Lin Sanqi didn't like antiques and curios. After all, this was a pseudo-medical novel and he didn't want to write it as 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 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, on behalf of the Hong Kong Lingnan Hall, I can assure you that if the country wants to export tuberculosis drugs in exchange for food or weapons, we will not charge a single 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?"
"right!"
Minister Li's face flushed with excitement. Exchanging medicine for food, is there anything more wonderful than this? So the old lady shouted anxiously:
"What are you all standing there for? Hurry up and install the phone lines. Find people to go to all the major institutions and find patients to 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)
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