Chapter 439: Putting down the butcher's knife can't reach the shore
Do pharmaceutical and medical companies contribute to the world? It is undeniable that they have made a huge contribution. Because of these companies, human beings can overcome one medical problem after another and manufacture a variety of advanced medical devices. Relying on these medical devices, the average life expectancy of human beings has been continuously extended.
As the old saying goes: life is rare for seventy years.
In today's society, 70 years old is not an uncommon thing. This is undoubtedly inseparable from the progress and development of medicine.
But medical companies are still controversial companies in this society. In addition to the high price of the original drug, one of the most criticized things is about human trials. Whether it is a medical device or a medicine, if you want to really put it into the market, then you must go through a variety of experiments. From Phase I and Phase II clinical trials to a large number of human trials.
It can be said that the success and failure of every drug are groped out by stepping on human bones.
If it is only to let the human body test drugs, then the degree of disgust of medical companies may not be so high. It will not become a topic that is deliberately avoided by the international community, and it is difficult to find enough information even if you actively search.
What is really frightening is that the vast majority of human trial projects of international medical groups, led by medical companies in developed countries in Europe and the United States, do not come through a formal way.
They don't recruit trialists from their home countries, explain to them in detail the various risks that may arise from the trial drugs, sign various risk contracts, and then give these people high remuneration.
Of course, some of this is due to national policy issues, and it is very cumbersome and slow for them to do these experiments in accordance with the laws prescribed by the policy. But the most important point is that the cost of doing so is too high!
Medical observation of a universal drug may require thousands or more trial observers. If everything is done according to the regular procedure, it will be time-consuming and labor-intensive, and the money consumed will be huge.
Capital is inherently profit-seeking, and medical companies are no exception. As a result, a large number of European and American medical companies have chosen the sites for human trials in developing and backward countries.
Among them is India, a well-known pharmaceutical testing ground. More than 150 drugs are put into trials in India every year. According to unofficial statistics, about one million people in India participate in the trials of new drugs every year. Some of them knew about it, and some of them were directly fooled by doctors.
But even for those who know about the test, they are paid very little. When they try a new drug, they can only get about a few tens of thousands of rupees (a few thousand yuan).
In addition to India in Asia, South America also has a large number of medical device testing sites. Places that are unknown, but real. Countries including Mexico, Peru, Brazil, and many others have such illegal testing grounds.
Because there are large numbers of unemployed people in these countries, the only way for them to support themselves is to work as test workers and sell blood.
Most of these people are low-educated people who have no idea what terrible harm their experiments will bring to their future.
Eighteen-year-old boy Malha is hesitating in front of a white house. He needed a sum of money because he got into college. It was a life-changing turning point for a teenager like him, who was born in a Mexican slum. The premise is that he can afford to pay for the school.
But alas, he has no money. Even if they emptied all their family funds, their family could not afford to go to college, and his family was a low-income family, so his credit was extremely low, and he could not apply for a student loan from the bank.
He was introduced here, a small town on the Mexican border, where the people seemed weird, and everyone gave him a strange feeling.
"That's it, don't hesitate Malha. Where do you get the money from. Just give them a few injections here, and you can make a lot of money by staying for a few months. You can still sell blood twice a month, they never care how many times a month you sell blood, two hundred milliliters of blood, they give fifty dollars!" Malha's ignorant eyes flashed with greed for money.
Marha looked hesitant: "What are you talking about injections?"
"Whatever he is. It seems to be an antibiotic or something. But whatever, there's no harm in that. You can't make a few thousand dollars in a month or two by going anywhere. Malha's little man had been trying to persuade him to follow him to the three-story white house.
"No, forget it. I'd better go find a part-time job. I felt like it was an illegal place to test drugs. "Malha isn't as stupid as his junior high school student, who didn't graduate from junior high school, and he's already guessed some clues.
"You're stupid! How much money do you make part-time? You have to earn half a year for half a year to earn a month's worth of money here!" Fa Xiao dragged Malha towards the three-story white house, dragging hard.
The white house looks like an ordinary villa, but in fact it is a place that is loose on the outside and tight on the inside. The company also knew that what it was doing was illegal. So many local gangsters were hired to maintain order here.
Malha and his little tugging attract the attention of the local gangsters. A Mexican gangster with a mohican haircut with a pistol pinned to his waist approached and spat at Malha's feet.
"What's going on?" the whites of his eyes looked more than black, and it looked terrifying.
"Nothing, we went to the wrong place. Let's go right now. When Malha saw this man, he knew that this place should not have come in the first place, and that he should not have been deceived by the words he had sent. What kind of opportunity he said to make money is really unreliable!
But their quarrel has already caught the attention of the local gangsters. They were also afraid that Malha was the kind of independent journalist who was not afraid of death. Those independent journalists are dedicated to exposing all kinds of ugly truths, and they are doing things that these gangsters see as harming others and themselves. For example, risking death to expose the drug trade, the human organ trade, or something. What the hell do you have to do with these things?!
The mohican-hairstyle gangster whistled, and two shaved gangsters came out of nowhere. Not much nonsense, they directly escorted the two of them away.
In this kind of frontier land, no one will know about killing one or two people casually.
The local gangsters did these things in broad daylight, but the surrounding residents looked numb, as if they hadn't seen at all.
Moxigan sneered.
But before his smile could freeze, he heard an unusually sharp whistling. From far to near, he turned his head and saw that a black dot in the sky was getting bigger and bigger. Bigger and bigger, bigger and bigger. When he could already see what the black dot was, he had no time to run, so he could only curse in a low voice: "Damn!"
It was an eighty-two-gauge mortar shell.
Whew~Bump~!
The explosion of mortar shells kicked off the battle.
In addition to the local gangsters, the Haynum Company has more than a dozen professionally trained mercenaries in the illegal testing ground.
When they heard the sound of cannons, they had already assembled as soon as possible.
"It's an attack! The Americans are coming!" The local gangsters shouted, "The American army has come to clear this place!"
Deeply influenced by American films, the local gangsters have the impression that Americans are the countries that maintain world justice.
And the mercenaries from the United States knew very well that this could not be possible. The United States is a country where interests are paramount, and the Hainum Company was originally an American medical company, and the company has an uncertain relationship with the top government officials. Even these trials were tacitly sanctioned by the government.
"It must be a competitor!" the captain of the mercenary squad immediately judged the situation.
They climbed to the top of the three-story building to look, and sure enough, a force of several hundred men was heading towards it.
"We can't resist this little bit of manpower here. Delete all the data, and then wait for the opportunity to leave, and we will escape before the encirclement is formed. Let those gangsters buy us time!" The mercenary squad leader gave the most correct orders to his squad members.
A dozen mercenaries moved quickly, ignoring the chaos that had begun outside. They're going to quickly remove all the experimental evidence here. This experimental evidence cannot be left behind, otherwise the handle will be too great.
However, when the mercenary captain led the soldiers into the data room, they found that the four mercenaries stationed there to protect the data had died. The researchers in the data room were all contained. And standing in the reference room were two people they had never seen before.
Two Asians.
One is tall and handsome, and the other is solemn and kind.
And after this solemn and kind man saw the mercenary team, he said lightly: "Put down your butcher's knife and life, and turn back." ”
A large transparent crystal bowl appeared out of thin air and slammed upside down on the mercenary squad's heads.
The dignified man turned his head to the tall and handsome man and said, "Isn't it more benevolent and Buddha-like to solve them in this way?"