Because he has been doing the business of purchasing generic drugs, he has a very good relationship with the manufacturers of generic drugs such as Gleevec and Iressa.

While Shakru was chatting with Tavindjik, the director of the Gleevec pharmaceutical factory, in his office, a worker suddenly came in and reported: "Boss, that African is here again!"

"Just say I'm not there, and let him come back later!" Tawindjik commanded impatiently.

Shakru asked curiously, "What's the matter, this African often comes to harass you?

Tawindejik sighed and said, "That's not necessary, in fact, this person is quite pitiful." Do you know what he's doing with me?"

Since Tavindjik said that he was pitiful, Shakru guessed, "Could it be that some charity organization has come to ask you for help?"

Tavindjik nodded and replied, "Almost, but he's not here to ask for money, he's here to buy medicine from me!"

"Isn't that a good thing? Is he paying a very low price?" asked Shakru, puzzled.

Tavindejik waved his hand and said: "It has nothing to do with the price, it is the medicine he wants to buy, I don't want to produce it at all, so he can't buy it even if he has money." Then he added: "And not only in me, but in the whole world, there is no production of this medicine." ”

"What kind of medicine is it, how can there be a market and no one produces it?" asked Shakru curiously.

"Have you ever heard of eflornithine?" asked Tavindjik without answering.

Shakru thought about it for a moment, then replied with a frown, "It seems to be a little impressive, but I can't remember it very much." ”

"There is a very strange and deadly infectious disease in Africa called sleeping sickness, which damages the central nervous system, leading to confusion, sudden coma, and then a high probability of not waking up, which affects millions of people in Africa.

Originally, this was a terminal disease, but when a Bayer R&D team was researching anti-cancer drugs, they accidentally discovered eflornithine, a special ingredient that can target sleeping sickness.

In fact, this kind of unintentional thing often occurs in drug research and development, for example, Viagra was originally discovered when developing cardiovascular and cerebrovascular drugs, so this requires R&D personnel to have extremely extensive knowledge, otherwise even if you encounter some active ingredients, you will miss out.

At this time, Tavindjik continued: "But it is a pity that after some research, Bayer did not agree to mass-produce this resurrection elixir, and stopped further research. ”

"Huh, why is that?" asked Shakru, puzzled.

"Because most of the Africans who suffer from these diseases are so poor that they can't afford it, and they have to take it all year round, do you think they can afford this niche and expensive medicine because they can't even eat?" Tawindjik asked rhetorically.

Hearing this, Shakru sighed very emotionally, yes, from the perspective of humanitarianism, since Bayer has developed a special drug for sleeping sickness, then it should be produced to save African patients suffering from the disease, but from the perspective of a profit-making organization, no one will do this kind of money-losing business, after all, he is not a charity.

"By the way, since most of them are poor, does that mean that there is still a small group of people who can afford it, can't it be produced for them?" Shakru proposed.

Tavindjik shook his head and said: "But their number is too small, probably only a few hundred, and no one can open a separate production line for these hundreds of customers, so in fact, they are even more pitiful, they have money but can't buy medicine." ”

Although this thing sounds very cold-blooded and cruel, but in fact this kind of thing is not uncommon, such as malaria, kala-azar, tuberculosis and other common diseases in poor countries, although there are many patients, but in drug research and development, not to mention heart disease, diabetes and other rich diseases, can not catch up with hair loss, weight loss is not a disease at all, and even pet antidepressants are much more invested than him, after all, hair loss, weight loss, pet depression can bring huge economic income, who wants to care about the life and death of those poor ghosts. (Therefore, artemisinin is a real medicine of conscience, and people who travel or work in Africa can not bring anything else, and artemisinin and other anti-malarial drugs must be carried with them.) ）

After sighing for a while, Shakru suddenly realized a question: "By the way, then what are they looking for you? Do they want you to produce this medicine?"

"Yes, their logic is that the cost of producing generic drugs is low, so we can lose less than Bayer, but they don't want to think about it, the real cost of drugs is in research and development, and production can cost a few dollars, so it's useless to look for me, I also sell drugs to make money, and I don't do charity, why do you do this kind of thing!" Tavindjik said disdainfully.

Then he sighed: "In fact, those who have chronic myelogenous leukemia have to thank those rich Europeans and Americans who also have this disease, otherwise let alone generic drugs, even if they are willing to spend a lot of money to buy real drugs, they can't buy real drugs!"

Although Shakru also felt that these patients were very pitiful, he could not do anything about this situation, after all, he was not yet a virgin to give everything for the lives of others.

Because of the impact of this incident, Shakru was in a very bad mood, and after returning home, Nihadalvi saw his appearance and asked curiously, and after learning about it, he also sighed: "Hey, these people are really pitiful, I have also seen some reports before, many very good chemists have given up researching drugs in order to make money, in fact, this is really a waste of their talents, but from their point of view, it is inconvenient for you to accuse them of anything!"

Originally, Nihadarvi was just a sigh of emotion, but when Shakru heard the word "cosmetics", a flash of inspiration suddenly flashed in his mind, and he immediately remembered it, and said that he felt familiar when he heard eflornithine before, and it turned out to refer to this thing, since everyone has not realized his true value, then he can't let go of this great opportunity if he says anything!

PS: In fact, everyone knows why eflornithine was put back on the market later, which is really ridiculous and true......