1. Life-saving medicine more expensive than gold

Before p>22, Lu Yong was an ordinary businessman. He left the state-owned foreign trade company where he worked two years ago and started a business in Wuxi. A small Zhensheng Knitwear Co., Ltd. is his safe place.

Like all ordinary people, Lu Yong doesn't have any big dreams. He works hard and pays attention to his reputation, hoping that the company's business will be smooth and his family will live a happy and healthy life. But in 22, fate hit him hard.

everything is not without warning. In the past six months, Lu Yong has always felt that something is wrong with his body. Although there is no obvious illness, he is weak and very tired. When he wakes up at night, his pillow towel is wet with night sweats, and his clothes are sticky and uncomfortable. Moreover, people are getting thinner every day for no reason.

At first, Lu Yong thought that the company was busy and tired, but after a short rest, the situation was still not good. In August 22, he went to the hospital for examination, and a thunderbolt hit him, and he was terminally ill.

Lu Yong couldn't believe his eyes, but the medical certificate said "chronic myeloid leukemia" in black and white. The doctor's attitude was calm and full of sympathy: "Bone marrow transplantation should be done as soon as possible, otherwise it may not last for several years."

Lu Yong wants to cry without tears. He is only 34 years old. Has life come to an end? It's not easy to do bone marrow transplantation, it's too difficult to find a suitable match. Fortunately, the doctor told Lu Yong that a drug called Gleevec was very effective, which could improve the patient's 5-year survival rate from 5% to over 9% and effectively control his illness.

Lu Yong hurried to buy Gleevec. He was dumbfounded when he saw the price. He took a box of medicine in his hand, which was so light that it cost 23,5 yuan. But it was important to save his life. He bought five boxes and got 1, yuan from the card.

The days of expensive life extension began. Every time Lu Yong took out a small pill and swallowed it, he felt that he was not taking medicine, but swallowing money. From August 22 to June 24, Lu Yong spent as much as 564, on Gleevec.

2. From 21, boxes to 21 boxes

The feeling of sitting on empty mountains is really desperate. Although Lu Yong dragged his sick body to run the company hard, the high cost of medicine still made him unable to bear it.

after learning of his illness, Lu Yong set up a QQ group to bring people from all over the world together to exchange their illness and support each other. The most talked about in the group is medicine.

For chronic myeloid leukemia, Gleevec was the most advanced drug at that time. As long as you take it regularly every day, you can control cancer cells, and your life is no different from that of ordinary people. But it's so expensive that few people in the group can afford it. Some people chat and chat, and their heads no longer flash. When they ask, they are "gone".

At this time, the group is silent, mourning for the deceased patients and worrying about their own fate. They can't afford medicine and can only wait for the arrival of death.

By chance, Lu Yong heard that there is an Indian imitation of Gleevec, which has almost the same curative effect as Gleevec, but the price is only 4, yuan per box. Lu Yong, who was overwhelmed by the cost of medicine, immediately decided to buy a box to try.

It is very inconvenient to go to India to buy medicine. Fortunately, a Japanese customer I know in Lu Yong has this channel to help him buy medicine. After he tried to eat it for two months, he found that all the indexes of his body were normal and the medicine was really effective!

In August, 24, Lu Yong shared the news among the patients, and the group suddenly exploded. Those who lingered at the door of death finally saw a glimmer of hope for survival.

The procedures for buying medicines across borders are complicated, and most people don't know how to communicate with Indian companies and how to send money to get medicines. Several patients asked Lu Yong to help them buy medicine, and Lu Yong agreed. Anyway, I want to buy it myself. Just buy more boxes. The drug effect is really good, and more and more people ask Lu Yong for help, because the condition of chronic myeloid leukemia is urgent, and once it turns into a period of rapid change, the immortal will be hard to save.

When more people buy, Lu Yong bargains with Indian manufacturers. He knows that although this generic drug is only a quarter of the price of genuine products, it costs thousands of dollars a month, and many patients still can't afford it. Lu Yong and the manufacturer have been grinding over and over again, from 4, to 2,, and then to 8. Later, the group purchase price he got has dropped to about 2 yuan per box.

from 2, to 2,, how much wealth has Lu Yong saved for thousands of patients? How many people who couldn't afford Gleevec have continued their lives? He can't count, but in the hearts of his patients, he is already a life-saving "medicine god".

But unlike Dying to Survive, Lu Yong didn't make a profit for himself from the beginning. He helped to buy medicine, which was purely warm-hearted, and wanted to contribute to these people who suffered from the same illness as himself. He called himself a "Medicine Man", but he didn't expect that the act of acting bravely in his eyes would lead to a prison sentence.

3. The contest between law and emotion

In August p>213, Lu Yong walked home as usual, and was greeted by a pair of cold handcuffs. He was taken to the public security bureau, and only then did Lu Yong know that he had broken the law.

Lu Yong bought Indian medicine without a drug import registration certificate, but Lu Yong bought a bank card with other people's information to collect money for the convenience of buying medicine. When he was arrested, there was still 3 million yuan in the card, which was conclusive evidence.

In July, 214, he was charged with obstructing credit card management and selling counterfeit drugs. He was detained for 135 days and started to brush the bath pool in the detention center, losing contact with the patients in the group.

The patients inquired about Lu Yong everywhere, only to know that their benefactor was jailed as a fake drug dealer. They were anxious: "His fake medicine is not fake, don't we know?" "Who should we buy medicine from when we have taken Lu Yong?" The patients rushed around and decided to write a letter jointly to save their "drug god" from trouble.

Lu Yong's 7-year-old mother went to the detention center to visit her son, and she was in tears. She really didn't know whether her son was a hero or a criminal.

Because things got worse, Lu Yong was released. But there is still no clear answer to this question.

is Lu Yong a hero? But he did break the law. Why is Gleevec expensive? Because it is patented and protected by intellectual property rights. It looks like a small pill, but it took decades from research and development to publication, and pharmaceutical companies invested more than 5 billion US dollars. Buy cheap drugs at will, pharmaceutical companies can't make a profit, will they have the financial and material resources to develop new drugs?

Just like genuine books and discs, if they have been embezzled by thieves and sellers, the singer, author and manufacturer will be repeatedly infringed, and for a long time, everyone will not be able to buy genuine books.

So, is Lu Yong a criminal? The verdict of the procuratorate is: "If it is determined that Lu Yong's behavior constitutes a crime, it will violate the values of criminal justice for the people." The law is cold, but human feelings are warm. How can a card, a disc and a book be compared with a fresh life?

In the contest between law and emotion, Lu Yong got the support of many people. Someone left an emotional message: "Those who pay for everyone should not freeze to death in the wind." He is not a drug god, but he did extend the lives of many people.

Happily, after Lu Yong regained his freedom, Gleevec's patent period has expired, and it is no longer an unattainable high-priced medicine for ordinary people. Lu Yong's illness has also been stable, and his company has a prosperous career, which once provided 1, pairs of ceremonial gloves for the Dutch royal family.

During the COVID-19 epidemic, Lu Yong went to India and bought thousands of goggles and N95 masks, which were transported back to China the day before the Indian embargo and donated to hospitals.

He is still doing heroic deeds in his own way. May the world be less sick and warmer.