Recently, the film I am not the God of medicine has been shown in various parts of the country. In the film, we also see a special drug named "Lenin" to treat leukemia. Because this drug also makes Cheng Yong face the choice between reason and law, is India's Lenin a fake drug? Why is the genuine Lenin so expensive?
In the movie, we see that LV Yili, pastor Liu and Xiao Huangmao all suffer from a kind of cancer called CML. At that time, if there was no bone marrow transplantation, they could only take drugs to maintain their lives. However, a drug company in Switzerland developed a special drug called Lenin (the prototype is Gleevec), which can make leukemia patients survive The rate is 90%, and it can maintain life for a long time. But the cost of a course of treatment is about 30000, which makes most patients almost unable to pay for expensive drugs.
According to Lu Yong, the prototype of the story, at that time, only he and one of his patients could temporarily pay for the price of Swiss Gleevec, and almost all the others were treated by chemotherapy. Later, Lu Yili found an Indian Lenin in the film, and the drug is not fake, the effect is almost the same as the original, but the price is several times lower. Cheng Yong reached an agreement with the Indian drug dealer at the beginning, and the purchase price is only 500 yuan. In reality, it is said that around 2013, the Indian generic drug was even around 200 yuan.
This also makes many netizens wonder why this kind of generic medicine is so cheap? I am not the God of medicine, India, why is it cheap?
After reading some articles, Xiaobian also briefly summarized that in the initial 'Indian patent law, Novartis only recognized its manufacturing process, not its compounds. 'it can be simply understood that imatinib is an important ingredient in Gleevec, which needs thousands of experiments to be developed, and Swiss companies have applied for patents, but some companies in India have made imitations on their own, because the cost of pharmaceutical ingredients may not be very expensive, so the price will be very different from the original version, and finally sold in India.
This kind of behavior was naturally opposed by the international community. At last, India also made a compromise and signed some agreements, but there is another one added. It is a major disease that will cause humanitarian disaster and involve the people's livelihood. Whether you authorize or not, I will allow our pharmaceutical factory to produce.
Many viewers may be condemning the behavior of Swiss companies in the film, but in fact, they invested a huge cost in the early stage of developing this kind of medicine. After all, they all know that scientific research and development is very expensive. So just as I was not the God of medicine in China and India's Lenin incident, each side has its own difficulties, and also exposed the contradictions in the society. The film There is no right or wrong in.
The most impressive sentence of Xiaobian is that Zhang Changlin said in prison: 'there is only one disease in the world, that is, poverty. 'this sentence also tells the bitterness of countless patients. I have to say that I am not a god of medicine, but a very excellent realistic film in recent years. I dare to interpret a series of problems in the current society, and this kind of film deserves our praise.