Cheap medicine is hidden: the seller pursues profit and stops the production of drug factory

Source: China industry and economy news on June 16, 2014, why is a cheap drug that can save lives found everywhere in Nanjing, but there is no "figure"? "Ask netizens for help to find life-saving medicine! My friend's child is 3 years old, suffering from severe pneumonia He has been informed of the danger of the disease He needs to rely on erythromycin injection urgently He has run all over the major hospitals without it Please help him to buy medicine! " Recently, netizen "rabbit girl" released a micro blog asking everyone to help buy life-saving medicine, which affected many people's hearts It turns out that the 3-year-old son of a friend named "rabbit girl" got pneumonia The doctor prescribed erythromycin injection, which has a better effect on children's pneumonia, but the pharmacy showed that the drug was out of stock Drugstores, pharmaceutical companies and even manufacturers say the drug has been discontinued But under, its friend had to ask "rabbit girl" to try his luck on the Internet It is this micro blog that makes many people find that the cheap "old medicine" such as Chuanbei loquat syrup, 3 Mao bags of dry yeast tablets and 1.3 yuan bottle of relying on erythromycin suddenly disappeared Many people are puzzled whether the hospital doesn't sell or the pharmaceutical factory stops production Unprofitable, manufacturers stop producing cheap drugs Since there is no trace of "old drugs", where are they? A doctor surnamed Zhang from Tongzhou children's hospital told China National Economic News: "don't say that patients can't buy it, even if we want to buy it, it will take a long time The pharmaceutical factory thinks that the price is low and we can't even buy it if we want to " Dr Zhang told reporters that because children are not like adults, they are not mature in all aspects, and the drugs they use need to be careful For example, relying on erythromycin injection is the first choice for children to treat pneumonia because of its small side effects and good therapeutic effect However, there will be limited prices in all countries for such drugs Hospitals can't sell these drugs beyond the national price limit, which makes manufacturers unprofitable and eventually gradually shut down In the face of most people's criticism, the manufacturers are also full of grievances In recent years, the competition in the pharmaceutical industry is more and more fierce, which also makes pharmaceutical manufacturers prefer to produce more profitable products "Now foreign pharmaceutical companies are also seizing the time to seize the Chinese market, and the competition will certainly become increasingly fierce in the future," Jia, a person in charge of Shijiazhuang Xianhe pharmaceutical, told China national economic news Some old medicines are good, but production is equal to loss of money Enterprises should take profit as the primary task, or the factories will fall down, let alone the production of medicines " The head said that due to the rising cost of raw materials, every low-cost generic drug will lose money, and it is difficult to persist unless there is government intervention Moreover, these low-cost drugs are not necessarily easy to sell Nowadays, many people prefer to buy high-cost products, especially imported medicine These words also got Doctor Zhang 's approval She told reporters that many parents bring their children to see a doctor, only to buy the most expensive, not the best As a more and more common trend, pharmaceutical companies have also cooperated to change the name of cheap drugs Change the product name and package, add a kind of ingredient casually, the price can be increased several times and then sold again The price of old drugs is low, and the sales volume is hard to guarantee Although it seems that it's unreasonable for pharmaceutical enterprises to stop production of low-cost drugs for the sake of profit, as an enterprise producing and selling drugs, pharmaceutical factories must also consider their own development If a product's profit is too low or loss, it's a normal measure to stop production, which is also in line with the market law But the pharmaceutical industry itself is a special industry, which shoulders the health of all citizens Xu zuoman, a special commentator of people's network, once said that pharmaceutical enterprises should always put social responsibility first, pay attention to the reputation of enterprises, and produce more products with good quality and affordable by the people, so as to get the recognition of the society and the people, and more conducive to maintaining the life and vitality of enterprises In pursuit of profits, drugstores and hospitals stop selling cheap drugs Even if manufacturers stop producing them, there should be surplus cheap generic drugs before Where are all these drugs? With this doubt, the reporter visited many drugstores in Beijing, Shijiazhuang and other places When the reporter proposed to buy cheap drugs, the drugstore salesmen would try their best to promote some new drugs, all of which indicated that cheap drugs were not as good as expensive ones for various reasons "In order to pursue interests, some pharmacies will recommend some drugs with large profits or high rebate when patients come to buy drugs, but it is not necessarily appropriate to buy drugs at a high price The key is to see a doctor to prescribe drugs." Yu Wanqiang, the head of Gengzhuang store in Tongzhou, a chain drugstore of Fu brand, told China national economic news that in fact, those old drugs with good quality and low price are not really all left, but many drugstores and even hospitals have hidden the old drugs for profit Although some cheap generic drugs may be out of production, not all of them Yu Wanqiang said that the prices of multiple brands of the same kind of drugs are different, some of them are as high as dozens, some of them are only a few yuan, and the profits of the same drugs are definitely different So many hospitals and pharmacies tend to buy expensive drugs Although the state has banned sales representatives from giving kickbacks to doctors in order to sell their products, drugstores are not very strict Take relying on erythromycin injection as an example, 1.3 yuan is the national price limit, which is obviously hard to gain profits But if a drug with the same effect is not listed in the price limit list of the state, the price may increase dozens of times, and the profits among them make many hospitals and pharmacies "forget" the name and efficacy of the old drug Old doctors don't mention it, new doctors don't know it, patients don't know it, and many reasons combine to make fewer and fewer people ask about old medicine If you ask less, there will be no sales If you don't sell, there will be no production The seemingly reasonable logic chain has caused the old medicine to fade out of people's vision The state limits drug prices by worrying about hospitals' arbitrary pricing, so as to ensure the rights and interests of the people But whether low prices will dampen the enthusiasm of pharmaceutical companies and hospitals, after all, they also need profits and development The disappearance of cheap drugs not only increases the burden of medical treatment, but also affects the quality of medical treatment Yu said that to solve this problem, we can start from two aspects First, adjust the restriction policy in time according to the actual situation Second, the government will provide cheap drugs as a public product However, either way may require the state to provide financial subsidies for the normal production and circulation of certain drugs In contrast, the second approach may seem more secure The local government can set up some community pharmacies, and set up some good and cheap old medicine areas On the one hand, it can solve the problem that it is difficult for community residents to purchase drugs, on the other hand, it can give the greatest benefits to the public The main contradiction of the disappearance of cheap drugs is that there is no profit, but there are many reasons for the disappearance To get them back to the public view, we need the government, pharmaceutical enterprises, hospitals and even patients to work together to improve the supply and distribution system, timely change policies, and put an end to the embarrassing situation of looking for drugs through microblogs