Unlike other movies, this movie has a prototype. In "You can't live but you can't die", Xu zhēng plays a role based on Lu Yong, and Lu Yong is sentenced to prison for buying generic drugs from India. What happened now?
Lu Yong 65438-0968 was born in a small family in Wuxi, Jiangsu. He grew up healthily under the care of his parents and gradually became the backbone of his family. With a clever mind, Lu Yong opened his own factory in Jiangsu and became the big boss of a local textile export enterprise. At this time, he is only in his thirties, and his smooth life has become the envy of his friends at a promising young age.
Lu Yong strives for the development of enterprises. If nothing happens, his business will develop greatly in the next few years. However, the weather is unpredictable, and people can always have all kinds of unpleasant things in their lives. When Lu Yong's career was booming, he was caught with chronic myeloid leukemia by fish. When the exam results came out, Lu Yong and his family felt that the road ahead was dark, and the pillar of the family fell down.
Fortunately, Lu Yong's illness has improved. The movie "You can't live without dying" says that Lu Yong's illness can be stabilized by drugs. Although it can't be completely cured, as long as Lu Yong takes medicine on time, he can live like a normal person. At that time, the medical level in China was still underdeveloped, and many medicines still needed to be imported. However, a common problem of imported medicine is that it is expensive, and ordinary people can't afford it. Those who can't afford life-saving drugs will die.
Lu Yong needs to take medicine for a long time. He needs to take a box of medicine every month. The price of a box of medicine is more than 20 thousand yuan, and his annual medical expenses are as high as 300 thousand yuan. At the beginning of his illness, Lu Yong, who had some money, was not worried about the cost of medicine. His business is still doing well, and he can afford the money. But over time, Lu Yong gradually felt overwhelmed, and the high medical expenses became a big problem in Lu Yong's life.
This medicine, Gleevec, must be imported from Switzerland. This commodity is expensive and the quantity is too small. In China, many patients like Lu have to do their best to win the opportunity to buy drugs.
Faced with such pressure, Lu had to find a way to buy medicine elsewhere. As the owner of a textile export company, Lu has accumulated a lot of contacts, and he began to ask his friends about the manufacturer of this ultra-high anticancer drug.
In June 2004, after many inquiries, Lu Yong finally learned that in addition to Switzerland, India is also producing this anticancer drug. Lu Yong immediately asked someone to buy some anti-cancer drugs from India for testing. The test results show that the efficacy of Gleevec in India is almost the same as that produced by Swiss pharmaceutical companies.
But sadly, drugs made in India have not been properly patented. Although it is very effective and cheap, it is still a generic drug and has not been recognized by the state.
In order to cure the disease, Lu began to take Indian anticancer drugs and treated himself as a mouse to test whether Indian drugs had side effects. After taking the medicine for a period of time, Lu's condition was effectively controlled and he didn't feel any discomfort himself. The cost of these two drugs is less than one-fifth of that of imported drugs, so he gave up the high cost of imported drugs and began to buy drugs made in India.
Although Lu discovered cheap and effective generic drugs, there are still many people in China who are troubled by high-priced anticancer drugs and have to work hard for them every year.
After India confirmed the effectiveness of generic drugs, Lu Yong shared information with many patients through patient groups, which brought new hope to many poor families. Because Lu has these resources, many patients turn to him for help and ask him to help them buy generic drugs from India.
According to Lu Yong's statistics, there were more than 1000 patients around him at that time, and he gradually changed from a patient to a purchasing agent. The news of cheap anticancer drugs in India is gradually spreading among patients. As more and more patients come to the door, his responsibility is getting heavier and heavier. In order to ensure the vital interests of patients, Lu Yong and another volunteer went to India as Red Cross volunteers to ensure that the anti-cancer drugs produced in India met all regulations.
In 2004, Lu negotiated with local Indian manufacturers to make anticancer drugs affordable for more poor families. He finally set the price at 2000 yuan/box and established a long-term cooperative relationship with the manufacturer. In order to buy medicine more conveniently, he set up a credit card so that he could remit money to Indian manufacturers. For many families, Lu Yong's existence has become their spiritual pillar, and patients affectionately call him the "medical god".
In 20 14, after working for the poor for many years, Lu Chuan was sentenced to prison for committing a crime. The police raided an illegal credit card gang and learned that Lu had bought a credit card according to the information provided by the gang. The police then tracked Lu Yong's whereabouts and found that he was selling Indian medicine.
This incident has attracted great attention of the police, because Indian medicine has no copyright qualification, and the drugs produced can save people and harm people, which involves the life safety of many people. The police filed a public prosecution with the procuratorate. However, after being detained for more than 100 days, Lu was acquitted and other patients came to beg for mercy, but he did not benefit from it.
The story of Lu Yong was widely reported, and the sky-high price of anticancer drugs also attracted public attention. The government noticed that imported drugs were very expensive, so everyone could afford them. There are fewer and fewer patients looking for generic drugs, and fewer and fewer patients looking for him.
No longer record the purchase of other patients. He took anti-cancer drugs covered by national insurance and was in good health. Lu Yong will also share medical policies with patients from time to time, so that they can buy inexpensive medicines.
For many people, it's hard to imagine that a person with a disease can promote China's medical reform alone, but Lu Yong did. He is a "drug god", and his appearance has brought good news to countless poor patients; But he's not the god of drugs. He is just a patient looking for cheap drugs. Lu Yong is undoubtedly a kind and upright man, and I believe that his deeds will make more people feel the power of heroes. I also hope that the country's medical security system is getting better and better, so that everyone can afford medicine.