“3.8 yuan a box, you can eat for 21 days”, Liu Liming: Make medicine affordable for every patient with liver disease

Changjiang Daily, Wuhan Client, July 27th (Reporter Tang Zhifeng Correspondent Bei Lan) On July 24th, Lao Liu from Xintian Village, Banqiao Town, Enshi City, “announced the good news to Liu Liming through WeChat” “: “Director Liu, I went to the hospital for a re-examination yesterday, and the doctor said that my chronic hepatitis B is under very good control! Thank you for the cheap and effective treatment plan for me.”

“This anti-hepatitis drug A box of viral medicine is 3.8 yuan, which can be eaten for 21 days, and is supplemented with cheaper Chinese herbal medicine.” This is what Liu Liming, director of the Hepatology Department of Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine, Hubei Third People’s Hospital (Hubei Zhongshan Hospital) prescribed for Lao Liu. “Prescription” is also the “cheap” plan for chronic hepatitis B treatment that he popularized and popularized when he trained more than a thousand grassroots doctors, including village doctors.

Liu Liming. Photo by Correspondent Bellan

Healthy “Sowers”

Making “cheap” prescriptions accessible to everyone

Once, Liu Liming treated a patient with hepatic coma from Macheng Mountains. He tried his best to save the patient. After the patient woke up, Liu Liming chatted with him and learned that the patient was treated at a township health center and was treated with some kind of antiviral drug.

The drug is 126 yuan a box and can be taken for 14 days, which is a lot of money for chronic hepatitis B patients who need long-term medication. The patient’s medication was intermittent, resulting in drug resistance and exacerbation of his condition.

On another occasion, during a free clinic in Xintian Village, Banqiao Town, Enshi City, Liu Liming presented a box of liver protection medicine and a bottle of anti-fibrosis capsules to Liu Liming, who had been suffering from chronic hepatitis B for more than 30 years. When Lao Liu learned that a box of liver protection medicine is 58 yuan, 5 boxes a month, a bottle of anti-fibrosis capsules is 55 yuan, and a bottle can only be eaten for 4 days, while thanking him, he repeatedly said: I can’t afford it, I can’t eat it. rise.

Liu Liming was greatly shocked by the experiences of the two patients. He realized that no matter how good the medicine is, the patient can’t use it, and the effect is 0. Only the medicines that are cheap and effective can be used by patients in remote areas.

Liu Liming constantly summed up experience, consulted literature, and after repeated deliberation, selected 3.8 yuan a box of anti-hepatitis B virus drugs that can be eaten for 21 days and Chinese medicine prescriptions for preventing liver cirrhosis. In the past three years, he has used weekends and holidays to train more than 1,000 primary medical and health personnel. Liu Liming said with relief: “Where I have been, village doctors can also prescribe ‘cheap’ prescriptions that patients can afford.”

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Making medicine more precise and warmer

Liu Liming not only tried to save money for patients, made patients affordable to see the disease and medicines, but also often advanced money to help Patients get through hard times.

In August last year, an old man in his 80s from Xinzhou District came to see a doctor with an old hen. When Liu Liming prescribed a prescription for him, the old man said with an embarrassed expression: “Doctor, my son is not at home, can I use an old hen to pay for the medicine?”

Liu Liming patiently answered patient consultations. Photo by Correspondent Bei Lan

After hearing the old man’s words, Liu Liming immediately paid for the old man’s medicine without saying a word, and repeatedly told the old man to take the old hen back. But who knows, when the old man left, he quietly left the old hen behind the clinic door.

When the old man came to see the doctor again, he paid off the medicine cost advanced by Liu Liming. Liu Liming insisted on “buying” the old hen “forgotten” by the old man with 200 yuan.

Liu Liming’s WeChat, friends with more than 700 patients. He has become a “family doctor” for many patients and their families. Patients who need consultation on other diseases will always ask him.

Liu Liming said that the relationship between doctors and patients should be warm. Only when doctors love others as themselves and learn to be grateful can they treat each other with sincerity, trust each other, and achieve the best results.

[Editor: Yu Lina]

[Source: Changjiang Daily – Changjiang Net]