Chapter 290: Infectious diseases spread internationally, and the Red Country is asked for medicine!
However, among them, there are still more rational people. They believe that Minister Shen and Lu Chiyu would never do such a thing. Otherwise, the number of people surrounding the hospital would definitely be more than tens of thousands, and the number of people causing trouble in various places would definitely not be limited to this.
But at this moment, the fools are in power, and the voices of this group of people have been suppressed.
Then, to make matters worse, international news reports appeared on the matter. They claimed that the Red Country people were causing the epidemic by eating recklessly, and that the Red Country government ignored the lives of the lower-class people in order to save money and refused to import special medicines from Country B to save the people.
In addition, this infectious disease also appeared in five or six other countries in the world at that time. The Red Country was now in even greater trouble. These affected countries sent letters of condemnation to the Red Country one after another.
Dozens of countries, led by Country B, put pressure on Country Red to buy special medicines to treat its citizens, and then bear the cost of medicines and various losses for patients in the affected countries.
They even unilaterally gave the Red Country a bill of 100 billion US dollars, of which 50 billion was used to buy special medicines for the people of the Red Country and the people of the disaster-stricken countries, and the remaining 50 billion was compensation for the losses of the disaster-stricken countries.
Country B also hypocritically claimed that it was out of humanitarianism and that they were kind enough to help Country Red reduce its medical expenses by 10 billion U.S. dollars, so that Country Red could quickly transfer the remaining 90 billion U.S. dollars.
Country B and the disaster-stricken country even formed a "debt collection" alliance and kept calling the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Country Red to urge payment.
In the conference room, Minister Shen listened to Secretary Wu and others reporting on the situation outside, and his expression became more and more gloomy the more he listened.
Recently, their attention has been focused on epidemic prevention, as well as dispatching, distributing and promoting the Chinese medicine prescribed by Lu Chiyu to patients. They have taken almost no precautions against this sudden riot.
In just two days, the situation outside had become so chaotic that Minister Shen and the others were completely caught off guard.
As for the turbulent international situation that was under their control, they wanted to take precautions but there was nothing they could do.
After listening to the report, his face was as gloomy as water. A leader of the Ministry of Health immediately stood up and said seriously: "Minister Shen, the rioters outside are doing this intentionally. Many areas without the epidemic have been spread the virus by these people.
According to our prediction, if this continues, our Red Country will be completely reduced to an epidemic area in less than half a month, and hundreds of millions of people will be affected.
By then, all kinds of construction in our Red Country will be greatly affected. If it is not handled properly, the entire country's economy may be paralyzed.
Furthermore, people outside are full of misunderstandings about you, Minister Shen, so we must respond quickly."
"Then what do you think we should do, Old Liu?" Minister Shen asked, looking directly at the other party.
Under Minister Shen's gaze that seemed to see through everything, Old Liu couldn't help but clench his hands tightly under the table, and even sweat appeared on his forehead.
At this moment, he was extremely conflicted about whether to say the following words, but he knew that he had no choice.
He gritted his teeth and said, "For the stability of the Red Country, to save the lives of the people, and for the sake of Minister Shen's decades of good reputation, I suggest that we purchase special medicine from Country B and then punish Comrade Lu Chiyu."
"Punishment? What punishment for Xiao Lu?" Minister Shen asked in a cold tone.
"I... I'm not saying that Comrade Lu Chiyu really did anything wrong, but the people outside are too excited, and we can't reason with them. So I said that punishing Comrade Lu Chiyu is just a temporary measure. Afterwards..."
The pen in Minister Shen's hand finally slammed onto the table with a bang, "You restored Xiao Lu's reputation afterwards? Use a female comrade to block it in front, Lao Liu, you have made a difference!"
"But we can't just sit and watch the Red Country fall into chaos. We're not really going to do anything to Comrade Lu Chiyu; this is just a temporary measure.
Minister Shen, why don't you ask everyone present for their opinions? If everyone agrees to do this temporarily, I hope you won't insist on doing it on your own."
Then he asked the people at the meeting: "Comrades, what do you think?"
After asking, Lao Liu's hands hidden under the table clenched even tighter. He knew that success or failure depended on this one move!
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