The dosage of ’one bottle’ that can treat late-stage disease metastasis is roughly around 6.8 million yuan.
There are a total of ten drops inside.
This quote is also approximately estimated, and when it comes to the specifics, there are bound to be some discrepancies.
Furthermore, whether this medicine will be included in various assurances and official subsidies in the future is another matter to discuss.
These are things to negotiate on going forward.
"So much?!" Dr. Wu also saw this figure, and his eyelids twitched uncontrollably.
The experts, too, furrowed their brows.
"President Zhang, this... 6.8 million?"
"Nearly 700,000 per drop? This price... it’s... it’s astronomical..."
"The Immortal Elixir is worth this price, but... alas!"
As they spoke, there were sighs, worries, and helplessness.
Yet a few moments later, they all looked at the palms of the surgical room staff.
He held a medicine bottle, the medication Zhang Feng previously used for patients.
Inside was the ten-drop dosage; now there’s only one drop left.
After testing, if the efficacy hasn’t diminished upon air exposure, it can be returned to the warehouse for repackaging.
As this one drop, 680,000, is less than half a gram but thousands of times more expensive than gold.
"Seven hundred thousand..." The person holding the medicine now grasped the bottle steadily, fearing it might break.
"More than six million..." Family members also heard this figure, immediately feeling dizzy, as they already owed some money for preliminary treatments.
They were an ordinary family that used some non-reimbursable imported medicines.
Though many saw it as overambitious, like fools, they just purely wanted their loved one to live.
But now, this one bottle, over six million, how could they afford it?
Faced with such astronomical figures, they didn’t even have to consider surgical costs.
Meanwhile, seeing their timid and awkward demeanor, Zhang Feng recalled his own past and the normal life within the adventurous world.
The expensive medication cost is indeed extremely difficult for many ordinary families to bear.
But the costs are indeed justified, this price isn’t considered to be overly inflated.
The big data center directly connects to Heaven’s Hearing. For precision in numbers regarding this aspect, the requirements are stringent. It’s impossible to mess around jokingly.
Especially now that mass production is still impossible, relying on manual synthesis by researchers and some experts, the human resources consumption will be even higher.
This hasn’t even counted the loss from the defective, substandard products midway.
If all of this were accounted for, it truly would be unspeakable.
"Teacher... this price?" Dr. Wu and others, seasoned veterans in medicine, understood some nuances within.
At this moment, they just wanted to ask how much the currently quoted price would be.
Even if Zhang Feng said ’Ten million, ten drops,’ they would find it normal.
However, the price isn’t beneficial to the people, unable to be widely applied, which strays far from the initial intention.
Because this isn’t Zhang Feng’s original intention.
’How did it calculate to so much?’
Zhang Feng sensed this was a thorny issue and thought about how to resolve it.
Meanwhile, a reporter from Xia City continued documenting like filming a documentary.
And as some doctors heard these quotes, they began conversing quietly.
Words like ’million-dollar medicine,’ ’reviving from the dead,’ ’Jade Pool Immortal Dew,’ ’cures many terminal illnesses’ illuminated everything here.
This medicine, though not yet mass-produced, was unanimously named ’Jade Pool Immortal Dew’ by the people.
Through their discussions, the recorded footage could recreate the entire sequence of events.
And now, everybody’s gaze was fixed on Zhang Feng, who was deep in thought.
If President Zhang vetoed the establishment of this project and allocated funds to the Extraordinary plan, then this patient might become the first beneficiary of ’Jade Pool Immortal Dew’ before technological breakthroughs, but also the last.
Likewise, that timid and anxious family would also bear a massive debt.
’President Zhang... how will you handle this?’ Despite being a seasoned journalist, the middle-aged reporter was plunged into unspeakable tension today.
Because every keyword in their conversations, be it ’hundred-billion Extraordinary research,’ ’Jade Pool Immortal Dew,’ or ’reviving from the dead,’ was an ’extraordinary major news’ he’d encountered for the first time in his life!
Just one lifted out would be a major weighty affair.
Now, however, they were all squeezed together.
Moreover, he knew deeply that whatever decision President Zhang made in the end, as long as it was released with this footage, it would surely provoke a major public opinion storm!
The premise is to let it be released.
The likelihood is the official will protect the ’pioneer’ reputation and then suppress it.
Even though clear-minded people might speak for Zhang Feng, it’s unnecessary to create conflicts.
Yet Zhang Feng didn’t pay attention to them but instead fell into a storm of memories, rapidly flipping medical knowledge in his mind, trying to find a way to minimize the cost of the medicine.
In the focus of everyone.
Roughly five minutes passed.
Zhang Feng couldn’t tell if he felt helpless or relieved, and simply said to everyone calmly:
"The current medical theory can’t drastically reduce costs while ensuring efficacy.
Our technology doesn’t support it; the knowledge structure is too weak.
But... dilution can reduce costs, though it would also relatively weaken some efficacy."
Zhang Feng thought quickly,
"Based on my current calculations.
One drop can be diluted into a thousand drops.
As long as some ordinary medicinal elements are added, the weakness of efficacy dilution can be compensated for, but the human resource consumption would expand further.
For example, it previously took ten research-grade instruments and ten research personnel to produce ten drops, saving a life.
But now after producing ten drops, they would be diluted into ten thousand drops.
To make the diluted medicine achieve 30% of the main therapeutic efficacy would require a minimum of ten thousand machines and tens of thousands of medicinal materials extracted, finally demanding the craftsmanship of ten thousand people.
Yet once accustomed, costs would be indefinitely compressed.
The price of one drop of diluted medicine should be suppressed to around ten thousand yuan.
However, 30% efficacy can only remove symptoms, yet cannot achieve the resurrection you mentioned earlier.
The final recovery of the patient still depends on their postoperative healing.
But in early or mid-stage with no metastatic focus. Endoscopy, colonoscopy, and minimally invasive techniques can achieve the complete therapeutic effect of ’delivering medicine to the disease focus.’"
As Zhang Feng spoke, internally, he felt somewhat upset, realizing some things weren’t as he wished and could change as he wanted.
Even though now diluted, reducing the price by dozens of times.
But ten thousand yuan was still a lot.
If several drops were used, that’s tens of thousands, many people might not afford it.
Not to mention the non-reducible surgical and related hospitalization and postoperative expenses, which also amounted to hefty spending comparable to diluted medicine.
All this added up became tens of thousands, even hundreds of thousands.
But if diluted medicine were free, or further compressed to a few hundred or tens, it would be much better.
However, the real world is helpless; it can’t meet that condition.
It’s not changes that can be casually made by one’s power.
Nor can one change things by mere wish.
The ideal utopia is just an imagined utopia after all.
Yet hearing that one drop of Jade Pool Immortal Dew only costs ten thousand, people gasped in amazement.
"Ten thousand is enough?"
"President Zhang, really?"
"A life-saving drug for ten thousand?"
"If with health insurance, might be a few thousand per drop..."
"Yeah... like mid-stage cancer without metastasis and some organ disorders, one drop is enough! Perfectly cured for less than ten thousand!
Most important is the increase in production, it can cure more incurable diseases!"
Everyone fell into excitement, unexpectedly President Zhang could indeed give a ’solution?’ Read complete version only at novel-fire.ɴet
Today’s subject and resolution of ’diluting the Immortal Elixir without destroying the main efficacy’ is sure to be engraved prominently in the healthcare world’s milestone!
’Immortal Elixir’ costing under ten thousand!
If research can proceed, it must demolish the entire organ-type medicine system!
So much so that the reporter has excitedly composed the video headline, titled ’Affordable Immortal Elixir!’
Seeing them so happy, Zhang Feng didn’t know what to feel internally, but perhaps his expectations of himself were too high?
Trying to achieve perfection in everything is a burden.
Thinking too much besides adding worries carries no use.
Reflecting in thought.
Feng Zhang also returned to normal demeanor, first looking at the group of experts,
"I’ll provide the formula later; you organize teams to prepare."
Saying this, Zhang Feng again looked at the boy’s father, gazing at his bewildered expression,
"Just calculate according to the new price, head downstairs to pay."
After speaking, Zhang Feng was about to leave.
At this moment, some doctor called out.
"Medicine God!" Two more doctors followed suit.
Zhang Feng glanced at them but waved his hand and chuckled:
"I’m not the Medicine God."