Heart disease cheap life-saving drug fish essence protein is out of stock nationwide.

This May Day, Zhao Bizhen feel particularly long, she suffers from heart disease, need to open the chest to replace the heart valve, because the operation must be prescribed fish essence protein out of stock, she can only line up in the ward to wait for medicine. Her sick friends can't wait, has left, she has been waiting, but do not know when to wait for the "heart-saving" medicine.
fish refined protein is out of stock nationwide, this is not the first time. Five years ago, it was there.
low-cost life-saving drugs, increasingly frequent out of stock. There are doctors analysis, this is related to low drug prices, low corporate profits, no production enthusiasm, and even some doctors speculate that this may be a precursor to drug manufacturers price increases.
helpless waiting
hospital for half a month and other drugs "heart-saving"
"Huaxi Metropolis Daily reporter, can you help me buy fish essence protein medicine?" Recently, Zhao Bizhen in the case of no way to go, to this newspaper for help.
Zhao Bizhen, 44 years old, self-congratulator, was diagnosed with rheumatic heart disease during a physical examination last year, two heart valves have problems, one needs to be replaced, one needs to be repaired. On April 14, she was admitted to the Heart Surgery at Chengdu Military General Hospital, awaiting surgery.
doctor told her that the operation could not be performed because of a lack of a drug called fish essence protein. "I'm not happy to get to the bed, and I don't want to give up lightly." Zhao Bizhen said that she always thought that medicine should not be long, said not to wait a few days to come to the drug. So she continued to stay in the hospital. More than half a month later, medicine still did not come, her mood is getting worse and worse.
understand, like Zhao Bizhen, such as the drug surgery patients, not in the minority. The 68-year-old's heart surgery was also medicineless, waiting for half a year, the operation was canceled. In the meantime, his family also went to Sichuan University Huaxi Hospital and provincial people's hospital to inquire about a circle, hoping to borrow medicine. However, the major hospitals say there is no medicine to borrow.
national drug shortage
this year, has become a national shortage of
Chengdu Military Region General Hospital Cardiovascular Surgery Director Zhang Nearbao said that fish essence protein is a heart patient to do in vitro circulation surgery when the necessary drugs, according to the weight of different, each adult each operation to use 6 to 8 drugs, however, in recent times, the drug is out of stock, resulting in more than 20 patients in the hospital surgery had to be cancelled.
Huaxi Metropolis Daily reporter from Chengdu Military Region General Hospital, Sichuan University Huaxi Hospital and Chengdu Third People's Hospital related departments learned that fish refined protein has been out of stock for some time, each hospital has only a small amount of medicine left for emergency patients.Luo Yong, director of cardiothoracic surgery at the Third People's Hospital in Chengdu,
, said the hospital has only 10 stocks left, leaving it only for urgent and serious patients, who are afraid to use them. To this end, the hospital has more than 10 patients in the state of waiting for drugs.
in fact, the out-of-stock of "fish protein" has become a national problem this year. According to public reports in the media, Zhejiang, Henan, Shandong and Anhui and other places are out of stock.
According to Zhang, the country has to do 220,000 heart surgery every year, and 56,000 people in Sichuan undergo heart surgery every year. This huge group is the end user of fish essence protein.
"For some patients, delayed surgery can affect the development of the disease." Zhang Eryong, director of thoracic cardiovascular surgery at Huaxi Hospital, Sichuan University, said in an interview.
industry analysis
the shortage of drugs prices for many years unchanged
this is the precursor to the price increase of manufacturers?Why are "fish essence proteins" out of stock
? Chengdu, a hospital pharmacy department in charge of the introduction, fish refined protein in the country has two enterprises to produce, for decades to maintain the same price, in today's skyrocketing prices, the enterprise production of drugs economic driving force greatly reduced.
Huaxi Metropolis Daily reporter learned that Shanghai Shanghai First Biochemical Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. produced fish essence protein, the history has 9.1 yuan of supply price;
in fact, five years ago, there was a large area of stock shortage of fish concentrate protein, and caused concern from all walks of life. Later, pharmaceutical companies stepped up production, the shortage of goods has been alleviated.
five years later, the cheap surgical essentials are again out of stock.
, who did not want to be named, said the reason for the shortage of goods was because the beijing-based company produced drugs for use only in the Beijing area and no longer circulated outside Beijing. Therefore, all the supply pressure is all pressure on the shanghai-owned enterprise. The person also speculated that this could be a precursor to higher prices for pharmaceutical manufacturers. On the afternoon of April 28,
, Huaxi Metropolis Daily reporter had called the "fish refined protein" of the two production enterprises, Beijing Yuekang Hyatt Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. public contact phone has been unable to connect;
medical treatment shortage
provincial CPPCC members: suggested to provide subsidies for low-cost shortage of drugs
for the fish refined protein five-yearly out of stock incident, the medical community also has a different view.
the director of cardiovascular surgery at a hospital in Chengdu, believes that the shortage of fish refined protein has a certain relationship with low-cost corporate profits and lack of production enthusiasm. In his view, to fundamentally solve the problem of shortage, the executive branch should further liberalize the conditions, so that more enterprises to participate in the production of such drugs to increase the supply. "Of course, this is about the quality and competence of the company, and it will take longer to solve the problem fundamentally." He said that before this, it may be useful for the state to properly liberalize the price of such drugs, enhance the enthusiasm of enterprises to produce such drugs, first to solve the most critical problem of heart-saving. Chen Zhangming, a member of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference of Sichuan Province,
, believes that the shortage of fish refined protein is a common phenomenon of low-cost shortage of drugs and the relationship between cases. He suggested that in view of the current situation of low-cost shortage of drugs, to play the role of drug users and industry associations, they should be proactive to the regional administrative departments (including the Commission and the Food and Drug Administration) to make recommendations to guide and support enterprises urging low-cost shortage of drugs to increase production efforts, while providing such enterprises with some policy support and subsidies. When more companies are willing to produce, they reduce their subsidies through administrative leveradjustment. Related Read:
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