Chapter 1419: Tremendous Pressure!
The island nation, Kyoto. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
Takeda Pharmaceutical's headquarters, in front of a high-end office building with 63 floors, was surrounded by thousands of people!
Koichi Takeda sat slumped in front of his chair, his face was ashen, and he had long lost the majesty that the head of Takeda Pharmaceutical should have.
In front of him, on the elegant desk, there are several resignation letters, these are the company's senior executives and veterans, but at this moment, these people have chosen to leave Takeda Pharmaceutical!
One week, only one week! The huge Takeda Pharmaceutical, one of the three major pharmaceutical companies in the island country, is on the verge of bankruptcy!
Normally, even if a project investment fails, it is absolutely impossible to bankrupt a listed company with assets of hundreds of billions of dollars, but that is only a normal situation. And now, Takeda Pharmaceutical is facing an obviously abnormal situation!
The research and development of "Pingtan No. 1" has almost exhausted Takeda Pharmaceutical's huge funds. In the past, almost all the deposits paid by cancer patients in those island countries were invested in the production of drugs by Takeda Pharmaceutical.
Don't think that Takeda Pharmaceutical has a ready-made production line, and it can produce "Ping Cancer No. 1" at a very low cost. In fact, in addition to the money spent by the institute, more money is spent on the production of new drugs. It is true that "Ping Cancer No. 1" can completely treat cancer, but this is calculated based on the investment of a large number of rare medicinal materials. The island country is a resource-poor country, and the price to pay for the production of such a drug is much higher than that of China!
Originally, I thought that with the high price of medicine, I could earn back the previous investment. But I didn't expect that "Ping Cancer No. 1" had been on the market for less than half a month, and the advertisements had just begun.
On the one hand, there are expensive drugs of nearly 300,000 meters of gold, and on the other hand, there are low-cost drugs that only need a few thousand Huaxia coins, which is equivalent to a few hundred yuan of rice gold, and more importantly, the efficacy of the two is exactly the same! With a price difference of nearly 1,000 times, who will choose the former if their brains are in water?
That's right, the Huaxia government is now strictly managing the "cancer health powder", and it is basically impossible to buy it abroad, even if it is impossible to increase the price. However, can't buy it at your doorstep? Won't you go to Huaxia to buy it? Nowadays, cross-border travel is simply not too simple. A family signs up for a tour group to go to China, and even the travel and medicine are counted together, which is just the cost of a few kilometers of gold, and for high-income island people, it is just a month's salary!
Under such circumstances, a large number of patients from island countries who previously chose "Ping Cancer No. 1" have chosen to return their products. Even though they signed the contract, according to the terms of the contract, they still had the option of a refund for a small penalty. Compared with the sky-high price of "Ping Cancer No. 1", this liquidated damages are negligible!
Therefore, Takeda Pharmaceutical spent a lot of financial and material resources to research the "Ping Cancer No. 1", and died before it could be developed. A large number of cost drugs are backlogged in the warehouse, and no one cares about them. At the same time, affected by China's cheap new drugs, Takeda Pharmaceutical's stock price also fell sharply, creating the largest decline in history, falling by more than 60% in five trading days! For a listed company, this is simply the deadliest disaster!
Hikaru Takeda looked blank and listened to the secretary's report, but he didn't know what he was thinking in his head. The people around the outside are all patients or family members. They demanded that Takeda Pharmaceutical fulfill the contract and return their drug money, but now Takeda Pharmaceutical can no longer afford to pay them, because the profits have long been evaporated by the stock market, or withdrawn by investors who feel bad in advance!
What seemed like a powerful business empire collapsed in the blink of an eye. Koichi Takeda couldn't understand why everything that looked so good suddenly changed so dramatically!
He waved his hand and motioned for the secretary to go out first. Immediately, he paused in his office for a moment, then turned and stood up and walked to the wide floor-to-ceiling window.
Even he didn't know what he wanted to do, he just subconsciously opened the window, stood on it, and stared blankly at the traffic below. A voice in his heart kept saying to him, "Jump, jump, and it's over!" ”
At this time, Koichi Takeda's office door was suddenly forcibly opened, and several police officers from the island country quickly broke in and forcibly controlled Koichi Takeda, who was trying to commit suicide by jumping off the building!
Takeda Pharmaceutical, as a well-known pharmaceutical group in the island country, has such a big thing happening now, and the government will naturally not sit idly by, and a number of high-level officials, including Takeda Koichi, have long been monitored by the government. Koichi Takeda, as the legal person of Takeda Pharmaceutical, is of course responsible for all this in front of him. If you want to be liberated by death, where is it so easy?
Being taken away by the police, Koichi Takeda didn't react much. For him now, it doesn't make much difference whether he is alive or dead. Having lost everything he had, he was nothing more than a walking corpse alive.
When he walked out of the building, countless angry patients and family members threw debris at him, smashing him to the ground. These patients who are a little slower to respond are now unable to ask Takeda Pharmaceutical to fulfill the contract, and their huge drug payment may not be returned, and even worse, now that Takeda Pharmaceutical has stopped production, they may not even be able to get the medicine, such a result is unacceptable to them no matter what!
Three days later, Takeda Pharmaceutical declared bankruptcy, and the island nation was shocked!
At the same time, there is a more serious problem that is causing major headaches for island nations and other governments.
A large number of cancer patients in China have been forcibly discharged from hospitals and refused to receive treatment in China. At the same time, a large number of tour groups to China began to become super popular, and under the overcrowding, many travel agencies have increased the price of tour groups in China, but despite this, they still can't stop the enthusiasm of patients!
Under the chain reaction, the impact is much more than that!
A large number of doctors and medical institutions involved in cancer treatment began to demonstrate in front of the government, protesting that cheap drugs in China had cost them their jobs. Even though it wasn't the government's fault, they didn't care about it. Foreigners have a strong sense of rights protection, and when they feel that their interests have been infringed, they don't care if the government is to blame for this, they just want to march and demonstrate!
A large number of patients also joined the demonstration, but they protested against why the government did not hurry up to introduce Huaxia's "cancer health powder"! For them, each extra day of waiting means an extra day of pain and high treatment costs. There are also poor people abroad, and not all of them can afford to apply for an international tour group and go to China for treatment.
In the face of such a situation, governments, especially those in developed countries in Europe and the United States, are also feeling a big headache. On the one hand, they need to reassure those in the health care system who have suffered losses or even lost their jobs due to the onslaught of cheap drugs from the Chinese government, and on the other hand, they have to do a lot of explaining to patients in their home countries. At this moment, in the hearts of these government officials, the degree of depression can be imagined!
Rice country, White House.
The black president sat in his office and listened to the health secretary standing in front of him, babbling. This guy has been here since he started work, and it's been more than an hour now.
Listening to his reasons that he had already repeated many times, the black president waved his hand impatiently and said to him: "Okay Yorkson, I know the difficulties you are facing now, but you also have to think about the situation in the White House, and now that we are dealing with this matter, you must give me time!" ”
Health Secretary Yorkson looked at the black president in front of him, spread his hands and said, "Okay, of course I can give you time, Mr. President, but the problem is that our people don't give me time now!" Every day, those patients scolded me on the Internet, calling me an executioner, saying that I didn't care about their lives and their immediate interests, and that if they didn't introduce new drugs from China, they would organize even more protests and strikes. ”
When he said this, he looked at the black president and said, "Mr. President, the general election is coming soon, and I don't think you want to make any trouble at this time." ”
When the black president heard this, he was even more heartbroken, this guy can't open which pot. He waved his hand and gave the Minister of Health a few more perfunctory remarks, and finally sent him out.
The next moment, he leaned back in the wide leather chair and let out a long sigh! Fu got up again and slammed his fist on the desk!
"Damn! Why is such an advanced technology developed by Huaxia? The state invests so much money every year for them to engage in genetic engineering, but the result is not even a decent result! The black president cursed lowly.
It's not that he doesn't know the difficulties that the health minister said, and he is facing a general election soon, and of course he doesn't want to make trouble. Now those opposition parties are already doing things with this, saying that he doesn't care about the lives of patients, only cares about protecting the interests of those large pharmaceutical companies, and even more ugly even says that he is trying to kill people for money!
In all fairness, the black president also wants to send an official agency to negotiate with the Chinese government to introduce the "cancer health powder" to the United States. Such an epoch-making drug is supposed to benefit all mankind. However, those damned pharmaceutical groups, for the sake of their so-called face and interests, through those members of Congress, constantly put pressure on themselves to strongly resist the "cancer health powder". Although he is the president, it is impossible for one person to have the final say in this so-called "democratic" country. Sometimes, he even envied those dictatorial countries, at least their executive orders could be carried out smoothly!
"Chu Yang, it's Chu Yang again! That Huaxia man is really a super big trouble! The black president cursed, and then reluctantly pressed the button on the red phone on the table.
"Tell me to go down and convene a cabinet meeting immediately!" The black president faced the phone, almost gritting his teeth and yelling.
An hour later, all the White House cabinet members gathered in the black president's office. In the face of this group of well-dressed politicians, the black president felt a big head. These guys, each of them has one or several super conglomerates behind them, and when they open their mouths, they are almost always representing their own interests, and because of this, it is simply a super difficult thing to balance these guys and implement a policy together.
"Gentlemen, I think we have to talk about the latest anti-cancer drugs in Huaxia. Now because of this incident, the government is already under a lot of pressure, and if we don't respond effectively, I'm afraid there will be big trouble next! The black president said, spreading his hands.
Hearing his words, these cabinet members were silent for a moment, and then immediately scrambled to speak.
"Mr. President, I suggest that we should put more pressure on the Chinese government to share the results of the miracle drug for cancer. This is the gospel of all mankind, and should not be a tool for any one enterprise or individual to make profits! ”
"Mr. President, I have long said that we can let our own medical institutions form a delegation to negotiate with that Chinese company to cooperate in the development of this new anti-cancer drug, I think they will not sit idly by in the face of such a large rice market!"
"It's a commercial monopoly! We should take tough measures and give Huaxia a little color! ”
"Your Excellency the President, I propose to send an official delegation to formally consult with the Huaxia government on this matter, you know, in Huaxia, the government's support is very important, if we get the support of the Huaxia government, I believe that the Huaxia enterprise will actively cooperate!"
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There was chaos in the conference room, and listening to the opinions of these cabinet members, the black president was also in a big head. These guys have everything they say, but they just can't come up with a reasonable proposal. Listen to what they said, the core meaning is one: it is okay to let "Cancer Health Powder" enter the United States, but they must get enough benefits!
"Okay, I know everyone's opinions, then the Minister of Health will lead a professional team to China for a visit." The black president waved his hand and said with some impatience.
Such a scene has been staged in many countries around the world!
The miraculous efficacy and low price of "Cancer Health Powder" have given cancer patients all over the world hope for life! At the same time, they have to face the embarrassment of having difficulty in purchasing medicines, and many have even lost their lives while waiting, driven by the desire to survive, these people have issued angry cries against their own governments!
Under pressure, more and more countries have sent delegations to visit Huaxia, and some large pharmaceutical companies have directly put down their bodies and directly approached Leshen Pharmaceutical to seek cooperation!
For a time, Leshen Pharmaceutical once again became the focus of global attention and stood on the cusp! (To be continued.) )