Chapter 277: One-Man Rule and Rural Cooperative Medical Care
director's office.

Dean Lu was wearing glasses and lying on the table, looking carefully at the artificial bezoar in front of him.

As he watched, a look of excitement appeared on his face.

Then, before Pu Lao could react, he pinched a small handful and put it in his mouth.

Wang Mengde noticed his actions, but did not stop him. Bezoar was not poisonous anyway. Besides, most doctors of that era had tasted some herbs themselves.

“That’s great. Although it’s quite different from natural bezoar, it can still be used.

This has solved a big problem. There are not many natural bezoars on the market now, but the demand is increasing significantly every year, causing the price to rise a lot.

Many patients, due to family difficulties and other issues, have cures that are clearly treatable, but due to delays, minor illnesses turn into major ones, and major illnesses turn into terminal illnesses.

Now we have a replacement that is so cheap, and it will help reduce the pain and expenses of the people in the future.”

Dean Lu raised his head and said with joy.

Although the domestic economy has been gradually recovering in the past two years, this is not something that can be achieved overnight.

In many places, farmers only have a few dollars left after working all year round.

Some people even suffered from famine and owed money to the production team by the end of the year.

In addition to the large number of people in the family and various necessary living expenses, a large part of the reason is that someone in the family is sick.

"Dean, I am developing Angong Niuhuang Pills. I want to use common herbs to replace the three precious herbs. I want to test the specific effects of artificially synthesized bezoar."

Wang Mengde spoke.

"Okay, I feel relieved to have you do the experiment."

Dean Lu nodded with a smile and said:
“If it really works, it will be a revolutionary event for Chinese medicine, with both advantages and disadvantages.

For a long time, many Chinese herbal medicines have been scarce and expensive due to various reasons. There are many very useful prescriptions that cannot be widely used due to the lack of medicinal materials.

In the future, when synthetic medicinal materials can be used as substitutes, these prescriptions will be able to play a huge role.

The superior leaders realized this problem a few years ago and have been looking for a solution. Unexpectedly, Comrade Wang Mengde found a direction quietly.

It seems that in the future, our Institute of Traditional Chinese Medicine needs to strengthen research cooperation with the Beijing Gene Research Institute and strive to achieve more results."

He paused, thought for a moment, and then continued:

“As for the biggest drawback, it’s the issue of drug efficacy.

As you know, with more and more Chinese herbal medicines being cultivated artificially, the dosage of many prescriptions needs to be changed.

After all, compared with naturally occurring Chinese herbal medicines, artificially grown ones are much less effective. If the dosage is not changed, many prescriptions will not work.”

The drawback raised by President Lu is a problem that has existed for a long time, but no one has a good way to solve it.

In the past, Chinese medicine doctors used naturally grown herbs to treat patients, and their efficacy was stable.

As the demand increased and artificial large-scale cultivation began, the efficacy of some medicinal materials gradually decreased.

Especially in recent years, as several medicines developed by Wang Mengde became popular abroad, the demand for medicinal materials has skyrocketed.

As far as Wang Mengde knows, dozens of counties across the country have gradually formed a cluster industry chain for the cultivation of Chinese herbal medicines, and a large number of farmers have become "business farmers."

The three chatted for a while.

Taking advantage of the opportunity when Dean Lu picked up the teacup to drink tea, Wang Mengde talked about the second thing.

"Dean, Deputy Director Xia Yiqing has been back from the Northeast for a few days. He talked to me yesterday and said that he wanted to go back to his hometown to work because he was getting old."

Last fall, Wang Mengde used arsenic to treat leukemia on a little girl.

Because the little girl's grandmother did not listen to the advice and gave her granddaughter something cold, which almost led to an accident, she also concealed the situation and dragged the family's relatives to the entrance of Guang'anmen Hospital to cause trouble.

In the meantime, Xia Yiqing hid in the crowd and fanned the flames, which made Wang Mengde remember it.

At that time, land reclamation in the Northeast was in full swing. There was no shortage of ordinary land reclamation workers, but there was an extreme shortage of technical personnel like doctors.

Before the heavy snow in winter blocked the roads, Liang Mancang ran to the capital several times for help.

Later, the superiors issued a document to transfer a group of technical personnel from all over the country to provide support.

So Wang Mengde arranged for him to go to the Northeast for support.

Originally, Xia Yiqing was reluctant, but at an internal medicine meeting, Wang Mengde and several of his fellow students sang the same tune, leaving him no reason to refuse.

With no other choice, he could only hold his nose and follow Liang Mancang to the Great Northern Wilderness.

It was not until the end of May this year that he and a group of supporting technical personnel returned at Xia Yiqing's strong request.

When Wang Mengde saw the unyielding Deputy Director Xia again, he was a little stunned.

I didn't expect that someone who has always paid great attention to his image would have frostbite on his face and hands that had not yet fully healed, and he was also unkempt.

A few days after returning, on his first day at work in the hospital, he couldn't wait to confront Wang Mengde.

He said that he was old and could not stand the hard work, so he wanted to resign and return to his hometown in Henan Province to work.

Wang Mengde had no doubt that his request was fake.

Because Liang Mancang also returned to Beijing a few days ago, I went to his house and talked about Deputy Director Xia.

Liang Mancang said with regret at the time: Although Deputy Director Xia has a bad temper, thinks highly of himself, and has bad intentions, his medical skills are really good.

During the months when heavy snow blocked the roads, they relied on a handful of grass, a needle, and a moxibustion cup to ensure that thousands of people in that area were not threatened by illness.

Unfortunately, I was not very resistant to cold. After just a few days, I started complaining about the cold and got a lot of frostbite on my face and hands.

"Oh, Deputy Director Xia actually wants to go back to his hometown to work. He has never expressed such an idea before."

Dean Lu said with some surprise.

Then, without waiting for Wang Mengde to explain, he added: "Since he took the initiative to apply, we should respect his personal opinion.

As long as there is a hospital or unit in his hometown willing to accept him, our institute will do its utmost to cooperate."

If it were in the past, he would definitely try to keep her, because even in the Institute of Traditional Chinese Medicine, there was a shortage of doctors.

But now it is different, after about ten years of development, especially with famous Chinese medicine masters and experts taking apprentices and Chinese medicine colleges training apprentices.

There is no shortage of ordinary doctors in the Institute of Traditional Chinese Medicine now.

Moreover, since Wang Mengde came to report to him the next day, he must have some ideas.

Otherwise, if you really want to keep Deputy Director Xia, you would first suppress this matter and then try to persuade him properly.

What's more, Mr. Pu stood by and said nothing, which clearly showed that he also acquiesced to this matter.

"Then I'll tell Deputy Director Xia when I get back."

Wang Mengde was happy and spoke quickly.

After Xia Yiqing left, he is now the one who has the final say in the Institute of Internal Medicine of the Chinese Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine.

Among dozens of formal employees, his fellow apprentices accounted for seven, and most of the remaining people admired him very much. After another ten or eight years, when his apprentices will graduate, his position in the department, and even in the Institute of Traditional Chinese Medicine, will be even more solid.

After solving Xia Yiqing's problem, Wang Mengde was in a good mood. He stood up and added hot water to the tea cups of Dean Lu and Mr. Pu.

this is.

Pu Lao, who had been silent since he came in, said to Dean Lu:
"Dean, there is one more thing.

It was I, the disciple, who came up with a solution to the problem that a large number of people in rural areas could not afford to treat serious illnesses.

After he told me about it, I felt it was very feasible. If it were implemented, the history of people in rural areas who had serious illnesses and could only wait to die at home would be gone forever. ”

"Really? Tell me about it."

Dean Lu instantly perked up.

This problem has troubled the country for many years. Not only him, but even the senior leaders are worried.

But there is no way. The country has just been liberated for more than ten years, and it has just experienced a difficult period in the past few years. Even if we want to solve this problem, we are unable to do so.

Unexpectedly, Wang Mengde had another idea.

If another person said this, he would definitely have doubts in his heart, but Wang Mengde was different. Many of his previous ideas had proven to be very effective.

"Haha, let Meng De talk about it. After all, he was the one who proposed this solution."

Master Pu said with a smile to the disciple beside him.

He now has no desires or ambitions. Apart from seeing patients at Guang'anmen Hospital every day, he writes books in his office, trying to record everything he has learned in his life.

And the recorded content will be handed over to the organization and allowed other doctors to study it free of charge.

"Dean, this is it.

Many years ago, whenever I had time, I would go to the rural areas around Beijing to treat my fellow villagers. I also often went back to my hometown in the countryside and discovered the pain that farmers suffered because they had no money to treat their illnesses.

After hearing this, many people feel that they have no money, which leads to "minor illnesses being delayed until they become major ones, and major illnesses causing financial ruin", not to mention preventing illnesses early.

I was thinking about how to solve this problem, and then I remembered the establishment of cooperatives and supply and marketing cooperatives in rural areas in previous years.

So an idea came to mind: why not organize rural members to implement cooperative medical care and rely on collective strength to fight diseases? "

Wang Mengde then slowly expressed his thoughts.

Before he could finish, Dean Lu asked solemnly:

“Implement cooperative medical care?
How should we organize this? Comrade Wang Mengde, do you have any specific ideas?

“There is a preliminary idea at the moment.

That is, each rural member pays one yuan per year for cooperative medical care, and the commune brigade then sets aside fifty cents per person from the collective public welfare fund as a cooperative medical care fund.

Then, except for a few people with stubborn diseases who need to take medicine all year round, the public only needs to pay a registration fee of 5 cents each time they see a doctor, and the medicine is free. "

Wang Mengde simply expressed his thoughts.

This was also the specific plan that the country implemented in rural cooperative medical care a few years later in history.

This plan was implemented for more than 20 years. It was not until the 1980s that many regions gradually abolished this system.

He had thought of this plan a long time ago, but had not yet come up with it.

The main reason was that the conditions were not yet mature at that time. Firstly, there was a lack of barefoot doctors in rural areas, so even if there was a good plan, it could not be implemented.

Secondly, in the past few years, rural areas have been eating from the same pot, and medical treatment is free.

In the difficult times that followed, many families didn't even have a penny, let alone a dollar, so naturally there was no way to get everyone to pay.

"That's a good idea."

After hearing his words, Dean Lu said excitedly:

"Each person only needs to pay one dollar per year, and they can see a doctor for free for the whole year.

In this way, members will not feel sorry for spending money and will not go to the clinic or hospital for treatment when they are sick. This will enable them to "treat illness early and even serious illnesses".

This model is also very consistent with the current idea of ​​collective cooperation, it is simply perfect.

Comrade Wang Mengde, when you return, please write down your ideas into a plan, and I will report this to my superiors at that time."

He can't wait to implement this model nationwide.

"Yes, Dean, I will write it right away when I get back."

Wang Mengde agreed.

He had already written a draft before this, and he only needed to revise and polish it after returning.

Early June.

The weather is already very hot.

The rural cooperative medical care plan had been submitted for several days. Wang Mengde estimated that President Lu would contact him soon.

really.

He didn't have to wait long. In the afternoon, the dean's secretary came over and invited him to the conference room for a meeting.

When we arrived at the meeting room, our superior was also there.

After the meeting started, the superior leaders first praised Wang Mengde, saying that his plan was particularly good. After studying it, the leaders felt that it was very feasible.

"Of course, it is not realistic to roll out the policy all at once. After much discussion, we believe that we can start with a small-scale pilot project.

In the second half of the year, we will select some communes in various provinces and cities across the country to implement this plan first. If there are no problems, we will gradually promote it nationwide.”

Wang Mengde naturally had no objection to the caution of the relevant leaders.

Small-scale pilot work is essential. After all, this involves all rural members across the country. Once a problem occurs, it will be troublesome.

“By the way, the leaders have also given instructions considering that the members are not well-off now.

That is, starting from the pilot project, each person only needs to pay 70 cents per year, and the remaining 30 cents will be allocated by the government and used for specific purposes. "

After the meeting.

The superior leader took Wang Mengde for a slow walk in the research institute.

"Comrade Wang Mengde, since you proposed this plan, your opinion is very important.

The state has decided to include Shahe Commune in this pilot project, which will begin next month. When you return to your hometown, please investigate it. If you find any problems, please let us know in time. "

"Leader, rest assured, I will definitely pay attention to it once the rural cooperative medical care is implemented."

Wang Mengde said.

It just so happens that he has to go back next month for something.

(End of this chapter)