Cui Hantang couldn't think of any new ideas for a while. Seeing that the two people's arrogance had subsided, Zhang Xiao secretly laughed in his heart and said, "Well, you can do this, but you can't talk about it. You two set up this society, is it possible that you want to provide staff for everyone? Anyway, you have to give it. They are looking for a future."
Du Yibin said: "I have a bigger idea..."
"Ideals are ideals, reality is reality. I think it is not impossible to let them out as staff. Most of the elders who go to local offices have a dark eye. There are a few locals who are familiar with the situation and have a reliable attitude. They are actually very useful as consultants. Use it. As long as you don't make too much noise, the Senate will not come to ask. This will at least give these people some opportunities to study government affairs. They will not be aimless when they take the public examination. It is better than staying in the academy now. It’s good to study the real test papers and mock papers.”
After some sweet talk, Zhang Xiao finally sent Cui and Du away. I thought that this piece of jade was really a piece of cake! Today's conversation is full of calcium, and it feels like jealousy...
Zheng Mingjiang did not leave for Huizhou as scheduled. The day before she left for Huizhou. The Provincial and Hong Kong General Hospital sent people over and invited her to the hospital for "consultation."
"Consultation?" Zheng Mingjiang was surprised. As the director of the obstetrics and gynecology department of Lingao General Hospital, nine out of ten patients she was asked to consult were pregnant women facing major risks.
"I'll be right away," she said.
She hurried to the Provincial and Hong Kong General Hospital, and sure enough, the nurse who came to greet her took her to the obstetrics and gynecology department.
"Where is the mother?" She hurriedly asked someone to get the surgical gown and prepared it for disinfection.
"It's not a maternal matter," the nurse said. "Doctor Fu is waiting for you."
"Doctor Fu? Consultation?" Zheng Mingjiang was confused and hurriedly asked her to come for a consultation. Why don't he have a meeting first without entering the ward? What important patient?
When I came to the obstetrics and gynecology office, not only Fu Qiliang was there, but Lin Motian was also there. Both of them remained sullen and silent.
"Where is the patient?" she asked.
"I'll take you there." Lin Motian said.
The two took the suspicious Zheng Mingjiang to the baby room of the obstetrics and gynecology department and opened the door of a ward.
There are six or seven small beds in the room, and the baby is sleeping soundly. There was a nurse looking after him, and everything seemed peaceful and peaceful.
"What's wrong?" Zheng Mingjiang vaguely felt that something was wrong.
"Look." Fu Qiliang whispered, "This is the first time I've seen it since D-Day."
The nurse carefully uncovered the thin quilt on the baby and untied the diaper. Zheng Mingjiang was surprised after seeing it and blurted out: "Female pseudohermaphroditism?"
"Yes," Fu Qiliang nodded, "Look at the other children."
The nurse untied the quilt one by one, and Zheng Mingjiang looked at each child one by one. The same was true for every child, and looking at the age, the difference was only two months at most.
"Is this what happened?" Zheng Mingjiang was surprised. The incidence of pseudohermaphroditism is very low, with a probability of only one in 100,000 to 1 in 300,000 under normal circumstances. Based on her medical experience in the old time and space, except for one case during training, she has not seen another case in more than ten years. There were six or seven cases here at once!
Obviously this cannot happen naturally. It should be caused by some kind of artificial drug. It should be the intake of a large amount of male hormones that causes such an effect. Zheng Mingjiang suddenly remembered the "Zhuantai Pill" he saw in Foshan. Could it be this?
But if you think about it carefully, although some medicinal materials in traditional Chinese medicine do contain more male hormones, it is difficult for natural medicinal materials that have not been extracted and purified to achieve such effects. Obviously, this has nothing to do with traditional Chinese medicine.
Fu Qiliang took out a document and handed it over: "Take a look, I think this matter is very strange. It is very likely to be related to the antibiotic case."
Thanks to the unremitting promotion of the Provincial and Hong Kong General Hospital, some pregnant women from relatively wealthy families in Guangzhou have also begun to choose to give birth in the hospital. But a few days ago, two or three cases of newborns with blurred external genitalia appeared in the hospital, and then the family members believed that the hospital was responsible. After receiving the diagnosis, Fu Qiliang felt that something was strange:
"...You know, the incidence of pseudohermaphroditism is extremely low. An obstetrician may not encounter one in his lifetime, and all of them are female pseudohermaphrodites. This is very strange."
Fu Qiliang naturally found it strange that so many false hermaphrodites, or female false hermaphrodites, appeared in such a concentrated and short period of time, and immediately told Lin Motian about it.
"...We went to the joint midwifery clinic and asked the midwives to report whether there were similar situations in home births..."
The joint midwifery clinic is a medical improvement project launched by the health bureau in Guangzhou and other places. In order to fill the gap in hospital beds and reduce the risk of childbirth, midwifery training is carried out in various places. Whether it is a stable mother in the past, there are women who are willing to enrich this profession. No matter what, you can participate in relevant training for free. After passing the internship assessment, you will be issued a practicing certificate, affiliated to the midwifery joint clinic to practice, and carry out delivery activities at the homes of pregnant women. Relevant birth records must be kept and archived.
"As a result of the investigation, it was discovered that there were many similar cases of false hermaphroditism in women, involving about ten babies. In addition, there were more than ten cases of abnormal genital development in male babies,"
"Abuse of testosterone drugs?" Zheng Mingjiang blurted out.
"That's right." Fu Qiliang nodded.
"Where are these children?" Zheng Mingjiang said, "We need to treat them as soon as possible. How much can we do to save them now?"
"Except for a few who died due to illness, all of them have been admitted in the past few days." Fu Qiliang said, "Dr. Lin and I think it is better to invite you for consultation and make a comprehensive assessment before making a treatment plan."
"This is no problem." Zheng Mingjiang said, "I can postpone the trip to Huizhou or send someone else to go. But there is a problem with this matter!"
"Yes, Dr. Lin thinks so too. Testosterone drugs can only be produced by our pharmaceutical factory. The mothers of these children should have used testosterone drugs during pregnancy."
"So, another drug has been released."
"Yes, the time when testosterone and dihydrotestosterone act on the development of the fetal external genitalia is mainly between 8 and 15 weeks of pregnancy, while the normal pregnancy period should be around 40 weeks. In other words, only after we observe abnormalities in newborns If we start investigating this case, it means that this batch of medicines should have arrived in Guangzhou more than half a year ago."
"When did this thing go into production?"
"Strictly speaking, it has never been officially put into production." Zheng Mingjiang said, "So far, it is still a small-scale trial production. There is only a small-scale first-phase clinical trial in the outpatient clinic of Lingao General Hospital. To be honest, I didn't expect anyone to Will associate it with reincarnation.”
Lin, Fu and others are medical personnel, and their perception of the development of medicine is that of a black box. To be precise, doctors only know what medicines they currently need and what medicines can produce, and that's it. So I was quite surprised when I heard that testosterone was produced by a pharmaceutical factory, because this drug has no use in this time and space.
Zheng Ming and Jiang Jiu are in Lingao. She is also responsible for part of the pharmacy work at Bairen General Hospital, so she often interacts with the technicians of Danzhou Pharmaceutical and knows the origin of this thing.
"Not only is testosterone, but also conjugated estrogen is being put into production." Zheng Mingjiang said.
"But these two things are of little use to us now." Lin Motian was a little confused.
The main indication of conjugated estrogen is to relieve the symptoms of vasomotion, mucosal atrophy, osteoporosis, etc. that occur in women during menopause, not to mention testosterone - I have not heard of any male veteran who has a strong demand in this regard. To say that there is demand is nothing more than that there may be some markets for export sales.
"You are right." Zheng Mingjiang nodded. The demand for testosterone and conjugated estrogen is indeed not very great. Pharmaceutical companies conduct research and development mainly as an introduction to the research on steroid hormone synthesis technology. However, Zheng Mingjiang didn't know much about these. She only knew that Hao Long, who was in charge of research and development, told her that the development and production of these two sex hormones was to serve as a springboard for the subsequent production of hormone drugs.
"It turns out that it is indeed a good thing to be able to produce various hormones." Fu Qiliang said, "But this drug is still in the first phase of clinical trials, and the application scenario is so small. How did it get out? of?"
"When it comes to the source, there are only two places, one is the pharmaceutical factory, and the other is the pharmacy of Bairen General Hospital." Zheng Mingjiang recalled that he was very concerned about drug control. At that time, she had not thought that the medicine would be scattered, but she was worried that a few half-hearted pharmacists in the pharmacy would get the wrong medicine.
Could it be that someone is causing trouble in the pharmacy? Zheng Mingjiang's heart skipped a beat.
She thought for a while and said, "No, I have to go back to Lingao quickly. If this thing spreads, it will cause endless harm!" After that, she got up and left.
Lin Motian hurriedly stopped her: "Don't be anxious! This thing might have been done by a group of people. Now that it has come out, we still have to get to the bottom of it. I don't think you need to be anxious at this moment. Let's start tomorrow Yes, we will form a report on this matter and submit it to Dr. Shi. Since you are now in charge of the joint investigation team, why not investigate together."
The opinions of Lin and Fu are still based on investigating the case of antibiotic loss. Since testosterone is an experimental drug, its output is not large, and the amount of dissipation must be very limited. It will not have much impact on the entire health department. It can be postponed. We’ll investigate later.
Zheng Mingjiang felt that what they said made sense and nodded: "Then I'll go to Huizhou as planned. But this time I went to Foshan and bought a lot of 'magic medicine', some of which also contain purified crystals. Maybe They are also some scattered drugs. There is no condition for testing here in Guangzhou..."
"We will arrange this." Lin Motian said, "Send it to the Ministry of Health's medical laboratory for testing as soon as possible."
"What should we do about the treatment of these children?" Fu Qiliang said, "There are now more than 20 male and female child victims identified, and there may be more after further investigation. Drug treatment requires controlled drugs, which we do not have here."
(End of chapter)
