Chapter 7 Chapter 3 Counterfeit Drugs: The Invisible Killer
On July 5, 1992, Chen Yanrui, a two-year-old girl from Chenhe Village, Cao County, Shandong Province, was taken by her mother to a village doctor Meng for treatment due to diarrhea. Died after 20 minutes.
On the second day, Meng injected the same drug into his granddaughter, who also died 20 minutes later.
This country doctor who has been practicing medicine for decades bought pseudo-kanamycin sulfate for cheap, which is actually succinylcholine, a drug that can paralyze the respiratory muscles and cause rapid death.He said: "I know there is a problem with self-employed people selling medicines...but the Kana (mycin) company sells it for two yuan a box, and the private one is only one yuan and nine."
With only a dime difference, two lively and lovely children including his granddaughter were killed in the blink of an eye. Is there anything more cruel than this?Chen Yanrui's mother said sadly: "It is said that murder pays for life. Now that my child is dead, should someone pay for life?"
On August 3, 1992, Zhang Jinlong, a 4-year-old boy from Xikong Village, Qixian County, Henan Province, also died of counterfeit medicine.The "kanamycin sulfate" given to him was actually succinylcholine chloride.Zhang Jinlong's father was working far away in Urumqi. After hearing the news, he rushed back to see that his son was buried and his wife went crazy. He was crying loudly.Jinlong's grandmother put her arms around Jinlong's young lady and told the visitor in a trembling voice: "If you get sick again, I won't let her get an injection!"
Affected by disease without medicine, but afraid of being poisoned by counterfeit medicine with medicine, in the dilemma, our life can only be a tragic gamble helplessly——hope I don’t use counterfeit medicine!
Citicoline injection produced by a pharmaceutical factory in Jilin Province was sold to the Workers Hospital of Qiqihar Agricultural and Animal Husbandry Vehicle Manufacturing General Factory. After clinical application, 6 patients had severe poisoning reactions.Despite all-out rescue efforts, 5 poisoned persons narrowly escaped death, and one person died after rescue failed.After inspection by the relevant departments of Jilin Province, 30% of these fake medicines were turbid and had bacterial growth, and they were identified as inferior medicines.Relevant departments have dealt with the parties involved, however, a precious life has been lost.
The Fourth People's Hospital of Wuxi City injected asparagus potassium and magnesium injection produced by a certain pharmaceutical factory in Wuxi City, 5 patients had a drug reaction, and after all-out rescue, one of them died.After investigation by the Wuxi Municipal Health Bureau, more than 250,000 injections of asparagus potassium magnesium injection, glucose injection, and sodium lactate injection produced by the pharmaceutical factory in more than 20 batches, including more than 250,000 injections, were not completely sterilized, and the sterility test was not satisfactory. Qualified, successively caused 11 patients to have drug reactions.Someone exclaimed afterwards: "If all these 250,000 inferior medicines flow into the market for clinical use, wouldn't that mean that 250,000 poisonous bombs were silently shot into the hearts of tens of thousands of innocent people?"
What a terrible fact!
In May 1991, a 52-year-old female accountant in Laishui County, Hebei Province was admitted to a hospital due to leukemia.Associate Professor and Associate Chief Physician Dr. Liu proposed to use an injection that had never been used in the hospital - L-asparaginase. Twenty days later, Dr. Liu brought six medicines that had expired for 22 months, and resold them to family members at 350 yuan each.Three days after taking one dose, the patient passed away.
On February 17, 1995, at the People's Hospital of a county in Liaoning Province, doctor Leng recommended to 21-year-old Xu Wenli, who was diagnosed with hepatitis, to take Chinese herbal medicine capsules made by the hospital's pharmacist Zou Changhui.The patient spent two hundred yuan to buy 4 bags of 100 Chinese herbal medicines packed with fool melon seeds.After taking to the 5th day, the state of an illness increases the weight of, goes to the county hospital for the second time to see a doctor.This time the doctor diagnosed acute hepatitis and hepatic necrosis, and he was hospitalized for treatment. Three days later, Xu Wenli's condition worsened and he was transferred to Jinzhou Zijinshan Hospital. He died the next night after rescue efforts failed.
Good medicines save lives, while fake medicines kill them.What a sad reality that many people do not die under the torment of disease, but die under the ravages of counterfeit medicine!How many people have been killed by counterfeit medicines?This is a difficult statistic.If the symptoms of poisoning were not manifested immediately after taking the medicine, many people often attribute the death of the patient to the deterioration of the disease, and seldom pay attention to the reaction of the medicine.But just from the murder cases and souls that have been exposed, it is enough to show people that counterfeit medicines are threatening our lives almost every day.
In the following case, the hospital astonishingly forced a child who was recovering from a minor illness to suffer from fake medicines one by one until he died.This is a tragedy reported by Southern Weekly reporter Gao Xiaoyan on January 22, 1999.
Hu Suifen, born on October 20, 1992, was a preschool student in an art school in Suifenhe City, Heilongjiang Province. She has a good understanding of playing the piano and is a cute little girl.
Her parents came from Hubei to do business in this newly-emerging frontier town after the town was withdrawn and established as a city, where Xiao Suifen was born. On May 27, 1997, Xiao Suifen caught a cold and was diagnosed with viral myocarditis by Mudanjiang Cardiovascular Hospital, but the doctor thought the condition was mild, so he prescribed Astragalus Injection and asked her to go back to Suifenhe local hospital to administer energy mixture for static injection.
On May 30, Xiao Suifen's mother, Wu Cuiping, took her to the Suifenhe People's Hospital to order medicine (injection). The doctor saw that the parents cared for the child abnormally, and they were southerners who were doing business, so they advised them to go to the hospital. Treatment, admission procedures completed on the same day.The so-called admission, in fact, pediatrics does not arrange wards, children order medicine in the adult bed, and go home immediately after ordering medicine.
In the first four days, the hospital followed the plan of Mudanjiang Cardiovascular Hospital, and the child got better day by day, "he was able to eat, drink, talk and laugh, and in particular, he didn't complain of feeling sick in his heart."During this period, Cui Na, the attending doctor, repeatedly proposed to change the medicine for the child - fructose diphosphate injection, said to be "imported from Italy", "the effect is particularly good", but the effect of astragalus is slow.The couple did not agree.
On the morning of June 3, Cui Na, the doctor in charge, told Wu Cuiping that the medicine had to be changed: "I'm going on a business trip tomorrow, and I prescribed fructose diphosphate for your child, which is specially used to treat myocarditis, and the effect is very good." The doctor in charge He urged to change the medicine again, but Wu was unwilling.Several doctors in the same room agreed that he should take nutritional medicine, but Wu still disagreed and insisted on going through the discharge procedures.The doctor naturally refused to do it, "I have no choice but to prescribe an injection first."Once prescribed, there are 7 injections, 109 yuan per injection.
As soon as the first injection was given, the child had a strong reaction: his face and lips turned white, he vomited, his whole body was cold, his heart felt uncomfortable, his eyes could not see, and his stomach hurt.Wu Cuiping called the doctor in charge and took anti-allergic and antiemetic drugs, which brought her condition into remission.She wanted the child to stay in the hospital for observation, but since there was no doctor at noon, she had to take the child home.
When I got home, the child kept saying that his stomach hurt, he kept shouting that he was thirsty, and his heart felt uncomfortable.The couple noticed that the child's hands and feet were also swollen at night.Early the next morning (June 4th), the two went to the doctor with the baby in their arms and asked if there was something wrong with the medicine.Dr. Xu Shufang, the director of pediatrics, blamed: "If you take fructose early, there will be no such danger. Fructose is absolutely no problem. It is Astragalus that lowers the child's blood pressure!"
At this moment, an internal medicine nurse came in and said, "An adult ordered the same batch of medicine yesterday afternoon, and he was also allergic like Hu Suifen, so he didn't want it anymore." Upon hearing this, the couple asked to withdraw the medicine.Director Xu was in a hurry, scolded the two of them for a meal, and finally decided to take fructose diphosphate.
The child was particularly frightened: "I understand the problem with the medicine in the small bottle yesterday." After ordering the medicine for a while, the same symptoms as yesterday appeared again.Wu Cuiping forcibly pulled out the needle, and the child recovered.But the attending doctor said: "Children also lie sometimes, so continue to order fructose tomorrow."
On the third day and the fourth day, fructose was ordered, but the child's reaction remained the same. As usual, Wu Cuiping pulled out the needle to settle the matter.The child's pain became more and more serious. The couple felt that the fructose was a problem, so they decided not to take the medicine anymore, and waited for the attending doctor to come back on Monday.On Monday, June 9, Dr. Cui Na did not go to work, and the couple told Director Xu about the situation in the past few days, hoping to go through the discharge procedures, but they were reprimanded.They hoped to check the child, and the answer was: "It's okay, go get it!" When ordering fructose, the child said: "Mom and Dad, you agreed not to let me make a small bottle, why? Why? I listen to you , I just don’t get sick in the future. Once I take this medicine, I feel uncomfortable, and I want to go to school.” This is a weak life’s final call in the face of death coming quietly, but unfortunately no one believes it, let alone After paying attention, it was finally up to Wu to pull out the needle ahead of time.
On June 10, 1997, Xiao Suifen was taken by her parents to the hospital for the last time, planning to ask the attending doctor to ask for discharge again.When the nurse saw her, she called Hu Suifen's name.Wu Cuiping was very hesitant, and asked Director Xu for advice, and the answer was still: "It's okay, go and order, this reaction is normal." While speaking, the nurse called Hu Suifen's name again, and the child's father, Hu Bixiang, held the child reluctantly. I went in (in China, what doctors say is golden mouth and jade teeth, although this kind-hearted parents have already had an ominous omen, but they dare not say to the hospital and the doctor: no!).
The understanding Xiao Suifen didn't want to embarrass her parents, so she closed her eyes and asked the nurse to order medicine.Within two minutes of taking the medicine, the child yelled, "Mom, I'm dying!" Wu Cuiping hurried downstairs to seek help from the doctor on duty, but the doctor ignored him.She ran back upstairs again, her husband had already pulled out the needle for the child, and the child kept vomiting, his face turned pale: "Mom, I can't bear it, I shouldn't be taking a small bottle of medicine, is it poisonous? I want to go home Why hasn't a doctor rescued me yet!" Xiao Suifen retched again as she spoke.The doctor asked Wu to go back to Director Xu.Wu picked up the child again and ran nearly 100 meters back to the pediatrics office. Director Xu was not there, and the child asked his mother to hug him tightly, "Mom, don't let me go! I have a headache!" Then, he vomited profusely.
When Director Xu came, she patted the child on the back, put the child on the bed, and inserted a thin oxygen tube into the nostril.Wu Cuiping found that her daughter had started to lose her breath, her lips were all purple, and her teeth were already clenched.At this time, someone came to give the child a drip.After a while, the potion couldn't get in.
The child died like this, and the couple couldn't figure it out.Hundreds of Hubei fellows who were doing business in the local area couldn't figure it out either. They gathered in the hospital to figure it out.A deputy director said in front of everyone: "It's common for hospitals to die, so what's the trouble!"
The fructose diphosphate used for Xiao Suifen was found to be counterfeit by the lawyer.According to the investigation by the public security department, the hospital used to buy fructose diphosphate from the Mudanjiang Pharmaceutical Company, but this time it bought it from Lan Yunqiang, a drug dealer in Hebei, in order to save money.The purchase price of fructose diphosphate from regular channels is 85 yuan per bottle, and the purchase price of the hospital from drug dealers is 80 yuan.
After Hu Suifen's death, her family suffered a devastating blow: her grandfather in Hubei died of exhaustion, and her grandmother was seriously ill; her father, Hu Bixiang, who was over half a century old, just smoked and drank silently every day, and his business completely collapsed ; Mother Wu Cuiping has undergone a sterilization operation, and she is doomed not to be a mother again in this life.
A senior pediatric expert in Mudanjiang City, who participated in the identification of Hu Suifen's medical accident, believed that the hospital had an inescapable responsibility for Hu Suifen's death: Why did they change the dressing?Changed the drug and did not pay attention to clinical observation, did not listen to the patient's complaint; had an allergic reaction and did not stop the drug in time.He said excitedly: "The child died so shamelessly! I am very sad. If the drug is stopped the next day, the child will not die. I guarantee it with my personality."
Hu Suifen is now buried at the foot of a mountain in Suifenhe. Because her parents liked the name Suifenhe, they named their daughter after Suifen. Unexpectedly, this became a prophecy.Before she died, she said: "Mom, I want to go back to the south." But she was destined to lie in the wind and frost of the Northland.When will the eyes she stared at when she was dying be able to close?
A child under the age of 5 was helplessly "killed" to death by counterfeit medicine, and a young woman who was as beautiful as a flower and a mother was arrested for a common blindness just because of a minor illness. Traditional Chinese medicine actually ruined his life.
This young mother is only 22 years old.Let's call her L. In October 1997, L went to a county people's hospital for treatment due to vulvar itching. After taking Chinese patent medicine, his condition improved. On October 24, because he had finished taking the medicine, L was called home by J, a retired physician from a certain hospital, on his way home. J prescribed 25 grams of gentian, 25 grams of Kochia chinensis, and 15 grams of Chuan Toosendan, and charged a handling fee of 35 yuan. L went to the pharmacy affiliated to the county pharmaceutical company to buy traditional Chinese medicine according to the prescription and went home.At 5:00 p.m., she decocted a dose of traditional Chinese medicine. At 6:00 p.m., she found abnormalities. She was sent to the emergency department of the county hospital at 9:00 p.m. Half an hour later, she began to go berserk, screaming and biting. Afterwards, he began to sleep and fell into a coma at 2:00 a.m. the next day until his death in the early morning of November 11.
After consulting with experts, she couldn't find the cause of her illness.Experts in the province asked the family members of the deceased to use a 3.4 kg puppy for drug testing.After the puppy was injected with traditional Chinese medicine, the symptoms were the same as those of the deceased, and he died within 4 hours.The Provincial Drug Control Institute conducted tests on these three traditional Chinese medicines and found that among the three traditional Chinese medicines L took, Toosendan and Gentiancao were fake and inferior traditional Chinese medicines.
The drugs that people bought with high hopes to save lives and protect health turned out to be deadly poisons. What a heinous crime, what a cruel and shameless crime!
Wang Shouhua, store manager of Pacific Clothing Park in Lianyungang City, Jiangsu Province, suffered from chronic bronchitis more than ten years ago.
On July 20, 1998, Wang Shouhua saw an advertisement in the city's Jindun Outpatient Department that "there are experts who can treat dozens of difficult and miscellaneous diseases", so he went to the outpatient department to see a doctor.An "expert" in his 60s was diagnosed with cough and asthma type bronchitis after "looking, smelling, asking, and cutting". Ning San A" and "Ke Chuan Ning San B" were given to her.When Wang took the first course of medicine, he often experienced numbness in his hands and feet. On July 30, she went to the outpatient department for consultation, and the doctor told her: "This proves that the medicine is effective, you continue to take it." So Wang Shouhua spent another 90 yuan to buy a second dose of medicine.After taking the second dose, Wang experienced symptoms such as dizziness, frequent urination, numbness in hands and feet, and edema of lower limbs. On August 9, Wang came to the outpatient department again, and consulted the "doctor" of the outpatient department about the situation after taking the medicine after July 30. It can be eradicated after taking a course of treatment." He also said, "If you buy more medicines, you can get a discount on the price."So another course of "Kechuanning San A, B" was prescribed.However, Wang Shouhua took one pack of "Kechuanning San A and B" at work at around 2:30 p.m. on August 12, 1998, and at around 5:20 p.m. He was short of breath and coughed, and was sent to the First People's Hospital of the city for emergency treatment. Despite all efforts, his life could not be saved.
According to the "Guangming Daily" report on January 27, 1999, after the Wang Shouhua incident, the Lianyungang Municipal Health Bureau organized relevant experts to examine the body, and then the city's drug testing institute extracted "cough and asthma" from the deceased's home and the Jindun clinic respectively. Ningsan A, B "drugs were tested.The experts checked and found that the number of molds contained in "Kechuanning San A" was 34×104/g, and the number of molds in drug B was 35×104/g, which were 680 times and 700 times higher than the standard stipulated by the national health department.According to expert analysis, bronchial asthma is an allergic disease, and Wang Shouhua's illness was caused by an immediate hypersensitivity reaction. On the afternoon of August 12, 1998, the deceased was exposed to Kechuanning San A, which had seriously exceeded the number of bacteria and molds. B drug can cause extreme bronchial spasm and exudation, resulting in pulmonary atresia, severe hypoxia, acute respiratory disorder, cardiac arrest and death.
According to the investigation, "Kechuanning San A and B" were "three-no products" bought by Li Guosen, the head of Jindun's outpatient department, around the end of 1997 from a private person who claimed to be called Huang Jinsun, and they were counterfeit medicines.
On November 25, 1998, the Municipal Medical Accident Appraisal Committee made an appraisal: a first-class medical liability accident.
The beautiful, virtuous and capable Wang Shouhua was only 37 years old, and she never even took a day of sick leave at work. The sudden death of such a well-behaved person made it impossible for all relatives and many people who knew her to understand and accept her.Wang Shouhua's husband is a taxi driver. Since the death of his virtuous wife, he has been crying all day long and doesn't think about eating or drinking.Wang Shouhua's 10-year-old son's academic performance plummeted. Once a parent meeting was held, the child rushed out crying when he saw that there was no relative around him.The child's personality has also changed, and he often wakes up in the middle of the night crying for his mother.When Wang Shouhua's nearly 70-year-old mother learned of her daughter's misfortune, she slammed her head against the wall with a long bloody gash on her head. The old man went to the cemetery almost every day and called out the name of her own flesh and blood.
The death of Wang Shouhua once again sounded the alarm: counterfeit medicines are fiercer than tigers!
Luo Yuxiu, a rural woman, was devoured by the fake medicine just because she suffered from mild varicose veins.
On March 8, 1999, at the 3.15 Safe and Healthy Consumption Special Gala in Gansu Province, Lu Yuhong from Dunhuang City held his mother's portrait in his hand, and told the audience about the misfortune of his mother being injected with counterfeit medicine. The passage of death.
The "China Youth Daily" reported the tragedy on March 25, 1999: Lu Yuhong's mother, Luo Yuxiu, was a villager in the second group of Zhangxian Village, Lujiabao Township, Dunhuang City, Gansu Province. She suffered from mild varicose veins in her right lower extremity. , when he learned from the advertisement that the Gansu Provincial Military Hospital could treat the disease, he came to the outpatient department of the Gansu Provincial Military Hospital at around 9 am on November 10, 1997.The hospital diagnosed "varicose veins of the right lower extremity", and the doctor in charge of the outpatient department told Luo Yuxiu that the "Anmaishu" injection in the hospital had special effects on treating varicose veins.On the same day, a nurse (later confirmed to be a cleaner) in the outpatient department gave Luo Yuxiu an injection of "Anmaishu".The next morning, Luo Yuxiu went to the outpatient department for reexamination according to the doctor's order. On the way, she suddenly felt chest tightness, shortness of breath, dizziness and nausea.The doctor in the outpatient department immediately rescued him after checking his condition.At about 11:00 in the morning, Luo Yuxiu finally died at the age of 48 due to ineffective rescue.
Luo Yuxiu's children, in addition to the pain, had doubts about the "Anmaishu" injection that the outpatient department injected the patient, and demanded that the outpatient department be responsible for the incident.After repeated negotiations by the five Lu Yuhong brothers, the hospital paid 80,000 yuan including Luo Yuxiu's funeral expenses.Luo's children also asked the outpatient department of this hospital to hold the person responsible for the accident accountable, but the hospital replied that "Luo Yuxiu's death was not caused by injection of drugs, and the hospital has done its best."
On March 13, 1998, the five Lu Yuhong brothers came to the Rights and Interests Department of the Provincial Consumer Association.A 12-page complaint material was placed in front of the person in charge of the Rights and Interests Department of the Consumers Association.The Provincial Consumers Association went to the provincial military hospital to investigate, and learned that the expert for the treatment of varicose veins in the outpatient department of the hospital was a retired doctor hired from a large hospital in the city, the nurse was a recruiter, and the other staff member was a cleaner hired by the outpatient department.Luo Yuxiu's son confirmed that it was the cleaner who injected Luo Yuxiu with the injection.
The Provincial Consumers Association and the Gansu Provincial Administration for Industry and Commerce found out that the batch number and manufacturer of the "Anmaishu" that caused the patient's death were false. That is to say, the "Anmaishu" injection used in the outpatient department of this hospital is a counterfeit drug!The Provincial Consumers Association pointed out in the relevant report: "Judging from the series of false certificates and fake invoices provided by the hospital to the Consumers Association, the outpatient department of this hospital clearly knew that the drug was a counterfeit drug, but it was used on patients. "
Knowing that it is a counterfeit drug but still using it, we don’t know what kind of behavior it is? !
Fake drugs, inferior drugs, and expired drugs have created so many wronged souls and murders!The hard facts, the lessons learned in blood, whether they can touch the conscience of those who manufacture and sell fake and inferior drugs?
We sue fake drugs that kill!
We prosecute those who manufacture and sell counterfeit medicines that are unreasonable!
Counterfeit and inferior drugs not only claimed hundreds of lives, but also seriously threatened and destroyed the health of thousands of people.
Although this 20-year-old girl cannot speak or walk, she will complain about the evil deeds of counterfeit drugs with bitter tears.That day, she came to the township hospital with a cold and was injected with a fake Noresin. After being poisoned, she went into shock. Although the hospital tried its best to save her from death, she became a vegetative state, lying in bed all day long, crying, No matter whether the sun rises or sets, no matter whether it is cold or hot...
On February 20, 1999, "Legal Daily" reported the tragedy that five patients with eye diseases lost their eyesight within two days due to a drug produced without a preparation license.
On October 24, 1996, Wang Jianjun's mother, Zhang Laiyun, underwent cataract surgery at the Zibo Central Hospital in Shandong Province due to senile cataract.This was an uncomplicated operation, but after the operation, Zhang Laiyun's eyes appeared dilated, red and swollen, tearing and other symptoms. His eyes were so painful that he was almost blind.According to the doctor's diagnosis, the cornea was damaged and there was no possibility of treatment.After judicial technical appraisal by the Zhangdian District Court, it was a seventh-grade disability.
During the first and second day of Zhang Laiyun's operation, four other patients undergoing cataract extraction also suffered the same fate in this same hospital.
After investigation, it turned out that the hospital used the compound methylcellulose corneal endothelial protective agent newly purchased from the Jinan Medical Science Institute (referred to as the Medical Institute).The Zibo Drug Control Institute conducted animal experiments. After using the drug, the eyes of rabbits showed the same symptoms as the patients, and their eyesight became blind.While the Central Hospital was looking for the cause of the blindness of five patients, another six patients including Ding Yuying from the Central Hospital of Zibo Mining Bureau underwent cataract extraction surgery. After the operation, they developed the same symptoms as five patients in the Central Hospital. And as a result, the same drug was used.
This protective agent is a drug newly developed by Jinan Medical Science Institute. The production and development unit of the drug has neither the "Pharmaceutical Production Enterprise License" nor the registered trademark, so it began to mass-produce the drug and distributed it widely in Shandong province. Orders, signed order contracts, which obviously violated the relevant provisions of my country's Drug Administration Law.Provincial and municipal health administrative departments have issued a document to stop the production and use of the drug, but the five blind patients could not see the light.
The five patients were all elderly women, four of whom were over seventy years old.For them, the hospitalization and surgery this time seemed like a nightmare, and they were really blind for the sake of light.The five patients and their relatives kept looking for compensation from the hospital and relevant departments, but the negotiation and mediation for nearly a year came to no avail.Helpless patients and their relatives had no choice but to sue Zhangdian District People's Court, pushing the central hospital and medical institute to the dock.After the trial, the court held that the defendant's medical department had not obtained the "Preparation License" for production and widely sold in Shandong Province. Its behavior violated the relevant provisions of the Drug Administration Law and should bear the main responsibility; the defendant's central hospital as a medical Institutions, without the consent of their administrative departments, arbitrarily purchased preparations that are not allowed to be sold on the market, and their behavior also violated the relevant provisions of the Drug Administration Law, and should also bear certain responsibilities.In the end, it was judged that the two defendants should compensate the plaintiff Zhang Laiyun and other five people with disability subsidies of 56,429 yuan.In the second instance, the Zibo Intermediate People's Court changed the judgment to 28,909 yuan in compensation.
The five victims received the compensation one after another. They said that they were blinded to treat their eyes. They each spent a lot of money to fight this lawsuit. For example, Zhang Laiyun's family spent almost About 15,000 yuan, but now the second trial only awards compensation of more than 5,000 yuan per person. Before the judgment, the hospital still took care of some of our medical expenses, but now it doesn't care about a cent.But what can be done?Li Wenhua, a 79-year-old lady, said, "I will never go to the hospital again in my life."
"Don't ask for medicine when you are sick, only read when you are bored", this was originally a complaint of Lu Xun. Unexpectedly, decades later, Chinese people dare not ask for medicine when they are really sick.
The production and sales of medicines are a matter of life and death, and no hypocrisy or fakes are allowed.But in fact, not only counterfeit drugs are flooding the market, but also inferior drugs are flooding, and the overall quality of drugs is quite unsatisfactory.
On February 6, 1999, the State Drug Administration notified the results of the national drug quality sampling inspection in the fourth quarter of 1998.According to the analysis of the random inspection results, among the drugs sampled, the qualified rate of Western medicine is relatively high, while the qualified rate of Chinese patent medicines and biological products is relatively low; The pass rate is the lowest.
According to the report, in the fourth quarter of 1998, in the national drug sampling inspection, 62 varieties and 140 batches of aspirin enteric-coated tablets produced by 104 production units including Biyang Pharmaceutical Factory in Henan Province were found to be unqualified drugs, and they were investigated and dealt with as inferior drugs.Detected counterfeit medicines of 12 varieties and 24 batch numbers, including Banlangen Granules marked by 16 production units such as "Anqing Biochemical Pharmaceutical Factory in Anhui Province".According to reports, in 1998, a total of 387,000 batches of drugs were sampled and inspected across the country, and the unqualified rate of the total sampled inspection was 13%.Zheng Yuyu, director of the State Drug Administration, pointed out that this reflects that some companies only care about immediate interests, regardless of long-term interests; they only want economic benefits, not the interests of the people.He said that medicines are special products, even if there is only one or one piece of counterfeit and inferior medicine, even if the substandard rate is only 1%, the harm to patients is 100%.
In fact, even if the quality of the medicine is qualified and the usage and dosage are normal, it may cause adverse drug reactions. This is a mantra passed down from generation to generation by the Chinese people, "Drugs are three-point poison".Yet many healthcare professionals lack awareness of adverse drug reactions (ADRs). The 5-year-old Hu Suifen complained again and again that she felt uncomfortable after taking the small bottle of medicine, and shouted not to give her "poison", our doctor still presumptuously injected the five bottles of fake medicine into her body one by one. Her body until she died; Wang Shouhua had a reaction after taking the medicine for the first time, but the doctor still stubbornly believed that it was a normal reaction to the medicine.Even if we turn a blind eye to the poisoning reaction of counterfeit drugs, we will naturally be more indifferent to the adverse reactions of qualified drugs.It is in this insensitivity and carelessness that tragedy often happens.
The World Health Organization expert group reported that in some developing countries, 5% of hospital admissions are related to adverse drug reactions, and this rate reaches 10-20% during hospitalization. There are more than 2.5 million hospitalized patients, and 5 to 10 million inpatients have adverse drug reactions.
According to reports, since 1988, the case reports of adverse drug reactions collected from various places involved nearly a thousand kinds of drugs, among which more than 200 people (more than half of them died when they were reported) caused leukemia and cancer caused by ethylenedimorph and ethyleneimine; Conazole caused severe liver damage to more than 30 people, and 4 died; levamisole caused interstitial encephalitis to more than 90 people, and 2 died.The quality of the medication used in these cases was qualified, and the usage and dosage were correct, but adverse reactions also occurred. Although it does not constitute a medical accident, it shows that we must not take it lightly, but must strengthen observation.People of different ethnicities, genders, and ages have different sensitivities to drugs under the circumstances of different nutritional status, blood type, genetic factors, enzyme systems, and pathophysiological conditions. The physical and chemical factors that people are exposed to in production and living environments Increasingly, these factors can also interact with medications.Therefore, using medicine is like using soldiers, you must be careful and observe carefully.This is not only the last hurdle to keep fake drugs out of the human body, but also the best way to find adverse drug reactions.