1000 fever-reducing pills smashed into hands, ibuprofen thrown in garbage pile…previously speculated to 46 times higher price

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On February 2, “netizens hoarded 1000 pieces of antipyretic medicine all smashed in the hands” on the hot search. The content of the hot search shows that a netizen sent a video to share that “Yang bought before, Yang Kang after a long time, the year twenty-seventy-eight before arriving”.

The video screen, 1000 pieces of antipyretic medicine is more conspicuous.

In this regard, some netizens commented that they do not understand, why do you want to buy 1000 tablets?

There is also a call for the netizen to donate.

At the same time, some netizens commented that this is not an ordinary netizen, is a hoarder scalpers.

There are also people in the comments section who say that there are people in their own neighborhoods who hoard 5 boxes of even flowers and clear the plague.

In addition, there are also Chongqing netizens who sent videos saying that they found many unopened piles of ibuprofen and other drugs in the garbage at the entrance, conservatively estimated to be hundreds of boxes.

At one time, acetaminophen, ibuprofen, were once difficult to find a drug. There were scalpers 65 yuan to buy the ibuprofen suspension, high price resold to nearly 3,000 yuan, the price has doubled 46 times.

In addition, the first day of the new year, the drug “montelukast” airborne hot search, in many people have not yet understood the situation, the drug has been quickly sold off.

The high price of hoarding drugs may not only lead to drug waste, but may also affect other people’s life-saving drugs.

In early January of this year, the static injection of human immunoglobulin on the “rush list”. The normal price of the globulin, which ranges from 500 to 600 yuan per unit, soared to 2,000 yuan for a single unit at the scalpers.

But in fact, the globulin is mainly used for the treatment of patients with immunodeficiency diseases and some rare diseases. Experts also said it was not a new crown treatment drug and should not be used on people who should not be. At that time, there were already rare disease patients who expressed their concern on social media platforms about the need to hoard the drug at a high price in advance.

The “White Paper on Household Expired Drug Recycling in China” shows that about 78.6% of families in China have a small family medicine box, but more than 80% of families do not have the habit of cleaning the box regularly, and 30-40% of medicines are more than three years old. If the expired drugs are not collected in a centralized manner, they can be disposed of with household garbage and recycled separately after the boxes are destroyed, which is relatively less risky. The best way to solve the chaotic situation caused by expired drugs is to refuse to follow the trend of drug hoarding and buy drugs rationally as needed.

In the face of drug hoarding anxiety, Jiao Yahui, director general of the National Health and Wellness Commission, explained in an interview with CCTV that “it’s because you can’t buy the drugs, you can’t get the drugs”. After experiencing the dilemma of difficulty in finding a drug, many people choose to “believe in some information that is not true”, after all, “there is no panic in your heart when you have a drug in your hand”.

To maximize the elimination of public anxiety about drug hoarding, drug supply must be well planned. The overall plan of the “Class B” management clearly calls for the preparation of Chinese medicine and allopathic drugs related to the treatment of new coronavirus infections. To break the drug shortage dilemma, we must prepare well in advance, stabilize drug prices, continuously improve the drug security mechanism, and timely regulate the production and supply of drugs according to market demand. The public can buy and use the right medicine when they need it, so that they can have confidence in the supply and reserve of medicines.

There’s nothing wrong with being prepared, but more drugs can’t stand up to hoarding. For the public, it is enough to prepare the drugs appropriately, not to over-hoard them. It is better to be calm and rational about the development of the epidemic and the need for medication, so that everyone is not held hostage by the hoarding of medication, so that everyone can have medication available.