Chapter 1099 - The Cost Is Too High!
Chapter 1099 The Cost Is Too High!
Apparently, Fang Qiu didn’t expect it to be so easy to treat malaria.
If he had known this earlier, he would have come earlier. He had wasted ten and a half months, and that was too much time. If he had come directly at the beginning, he would have been able to save more people and reduce the pain of those who were infected now.
He gave a wry smile.
However, there was nothing he could do about it. In the past ten and a half months, he had too many things to do. While busy with all kinds of things, he did not forget to save people.
“Whatever. Since I’m here, I must cure them.”
Exhaling slowly, Fang Qiu tried the third time to be infected and was ready to try the pills again accurately.
To his surprise, he found that because of the previous two cases of infection, he already had antibodies in his body, so he couldn’t be infected this time.
“Done.”
In this case, Fang Qiu was more relieved.
Although his body was much stronger than that of an ordinary person, since the Dark Plum Pill could help the human body kill the malaria viruses and create antibodies against them, it meant that it could definitely cure malaria completely. Moreover, after an adequate course of treatment, it could guarantee that the patients would never relapse!
Fang Qiu didn’t think much. He immediately walked to an empty space with no one else around and took out his mobile phone to call He Xue.
“Hello?”
He was immediately put through, and He Xue’s voice sounded.
“I’ve sent you a prescription. It’s used to treat malaria. Start producing this drug immediately according to this prescription. I’ve also sent you the general number needed to cure a person. Do a calculation yourself. Deliver the drugs directly to Comores after they are done processing. Now do the math and tell me the approximate cost,” said Fang Qiu.
“You’re gonna do a good deed again?” He Xue asked.
Of course, she had heard about the news on the Internet that Fang Qiu was going to treat malaria in Comores, but she never thought he would cover all the medical expenses himself. After all, Comores was not his motherland Huaxia.
Moreover, he couldn’t even share his country’s worries. How could he spend all his money on some country abroad?
He Xue never worried that the news would come true from the start.
But now, hearing Fang Qiu’s words, she became nervous in an instant. If Fang Qiu was really going to do that, he would be too stupid.
“Do the math now. Saving lives is more important. Just make sure we don’t lose money, although I’m gonna help a foreign country,” said Fang Qiu.
“Okay.”
He Xue let out a sigh of relief.
It seemed that Fang Qiu was not going to spend money on foreigners. At least, he knew that he couldn’t lose money.
After hanging up the phone, He Xue immediately began to calculate according to the information given by Fang Qiu.
“Beep, beep, beep…”
Ten minutes later, Fang Qiu’s cell phone rang.
He picked up the phone and asked directly, “How much?”
“According to the data you gave me, it takes at least two thousand Huaxia coins to treat a person,” answered He Xue.
When Fang Qiu heard this, he immediately frowned and said, “2,000 per person? I’ve checked the population size of the Union of the Comores on the Internet. It has a population of 800,000 in total. According to the United Countries, 80% of the people of the Union of the Comores suffer varying degrees of malaria. In order to prevent and cure this highly contagious disease, all people have to take medicine this time. So, the 800,000 people will cost me 1.6 billion Huaxia coins, which is 200 million dollars.”
“That’s right.”
He Xue nodded and continued, “I’ve also checked the information you’ve mentioned. It’s basically correct. But I did a little more digging. The annual gross domestic product of the Union of the Comores is only a little more than 600 million dollars. It’s unrealistic to ask them to directly take out one-third of it to treat malaria, and we don’t have that much Desert Cistanche.
“Most important of all, Africo is vast and the Union of the Comores is just four small islands in it. Given your character, since you can cure those in the Union of the Comores, you can’t just ignore the other countries in Africo, can you? What about those countries?
“In this case, the Dark Plum Pill will still end up becoming a high-end drug, which is contrary to your original intention. I think you’d better take a different approach.”
Fang Qiu heard this and couldn’t help smiling bitterly.
He didn’t expect He Xue to think of something that he hadn’t thought of himself.
According to He Xue, this price was indeed far too high.
He hung up the phone.
With that in mind, he immediately returned to the Presidential Palace on Great Comores Island.
The moment the president saw Fang Qiu, he asked, “How’s it?”
“It can be treated, and I can guarantee that it will absolutely be cured and will never come back,” replied Fang Qiu.
“Really?”
The president rejoiced at once, but it didn’t take long for him to grow serious. He asked, “What price do I need to pay?”
Fang Qiu didn’t hesitate and said directly, “Money. I have a prescription. The medicine produced by this prescription can completely cure malaria. However, this is a kind of traditional Chinese medicine, and one of the medicinal materials used is very unique in Huaxia and is only accessible in the Renyi Group. I’ve had it calculated according to the lowest price. It takes 2,000 Huaxia coins to cure a person. To cure all the people and make malaria vanish from Comores will cost 200 million dollars!”
As soon as the president heard this number, he shook his head nonstop and said, “200 million? That’s a lot of money! We spend plenty of money every year, and there are also a lot of maintenance costs. Apart from all kinds of expenses, our finances will end up with the little left. As you can see, the people of our country are very poor!”
Fang Qiu gave a wry smile.
He Xue was right.
Comores really couldn’t afford so much money to treat malaria.
While smiling wryly, Fang Qiu was lost in thought.
In addition to spending money on processing medicine, was there any other way to cure malaria?
Fang Qiu pondered for a long while.
He finally remembered that Comores was a union formed by four islands. Although these four islands were very poor, their positions and natural environments were very good. The plants there were very dense, and there must be a lot of Chinese medicinal herbs.
There might be effective herbs in local herbs. And using local herbs could surely reduce the cost. After all, traditional Chinese medicine was all about using local herbs.
Not only Comores, but other countries in Africo also grew traditional Chinese medicinal herbs.
Thinking of this, Fang Qiu immediately said, “I need all records related to malaria in Africo.”
“They’re all in the national library,” the president replied.
“Take me there.”
Fang Qiu immediately got up.
Without hesitation, the president immediately sent someone to take Fang Qiu to the library.
The library was very small.
However, there were quite a few books in there.
Because it was the staff of the Presidential Palace who brought Fang Qiu there, the librarian was very respectful to Fang Qiu. As soon as he heard that Fang Qiu needed some books, he immediately guided Fang Qiu to find them.
Fang Qiu found the books, stood in front of the bookshelf, and began to browse through them like crazy.
He was so fast in turning the pages. He didn’t look like he was reading at all, but more like he was counting the pages!
Seeing Fang Qiu reading so fast, the librarian beside him was dumbfounded.
It only took Fang Qiu a few minutes to finish reading a book.
The librarian even suspected that Fang Qiu was too bored to waste his time here deliberately. However, he didn’t dare to ask too much. After all, Fang Qiu was the distinguished guest of the president. If he was not careful, he would be punished.
Fang Qiu, however, didn’t pay any attention to the librarian.
He was immersed in reading these books that recorded malaria.
It was not until he had read five or six books that he finally found out that Egyptt did have a record of treating malaria. In this record, several kinds of herbs could really cure malaria after boiling.
At the sight of the record, Fang Qiu immediately began to check these herbs.
Lotus Heart, Morning Flower, Everlasting Red, and Light Yellow.
Fang Qiu checked the four herbs one by one.
To his surprise, he found that these herbs shared exactly the same latitude, longitude, and climatic conditions as those in the prescription of the Dark Plum Pill.
His eyes suddenly lit up.
This was a breakthrough!
Perhaps he could use these few herbs to develop the Dark Plum Pill of the Africon version.
“Although it’s effective in the record, I don’t know if it’s effective on all the patients. Besides, if I use ordinary herbs, the effect will definitely not be as good as that of the Dark Plum Pill. Without the addition of the Desert Cistanche that contains the Qi of Heaven and Earth, it’s obviously impossible to improve the efficacy to a level that is visible to the naked eye.”
Thinking of this, Fang Qiu couldn’t help frowning.
After thinking for some more time, he couldn’t come up with any solution and could only continue to read.
However, he found that there seemed to be something wrong with the method recorded in the book.
He saw that the book said these herbs should be removed from the heat immediately after boiling and taken as soon as the medicinal potion cooled. There was really something wrong with this method.
This was quite different from traditional Chinese medicine, which usually emphasized time, heat control, decoction, etc. that could get all the efficacy out.
“Maybe I can better these decoction skills to improve the efficacy during the boiling process, which will be able to improve its effectiveness against malaria.”
With that thought in mind, Fang Qiu suddenly paused and murmured, “And it’s not only wrong in decoction but it’s also wrong before this.”
In Huaxia, all the medicinal materials needed to be processed before they could be formally used as part of the medicine because only in this way could the medicine work better.
However, in the treatment method recorded in the book, it was obvious that those herbs had not been processed. After being picked, they were immediately added to the water to be boiled. This method could not help the medicine work at all.
“Since the herbs are almost the same as those in the prescription of the Dark Plum Pill, can I process them with the same method?” Fang Qiu thought to himself.
Whether it worked or not, he was ready to do so anyway.
Since he thought of it, he had to try. He believed that he could make it.
After confirming the method, Fang Qiu immediately returned to the Presidential Palace and told the president what he thought.
Fang Qiu was disappointed to find that the doctors of Comores had never picked the four herbs and that Comores had no reserve of them at all from the president.
He had no choice but to collect them on his own.
Of course, before going to collect the herbs, he returned to the medical aid base and said goodbye to Jiang Miaoyu.
Knowing that he was going to collect herbs, Jiang Miaoyu expressed her understanding and support.