Recently, the topic of antipyretics ibuprofen not being available has spread all over the Internet. Whether it is an adult or a child, no matter whether it is online or offline, it is hard to find a medicine.
Children’s medication has been fired at sky-high prices
Some scalpers took advantage of their parents’ anxiety and sold a bottle of Merrill Lynch (ibuprofen suspension) for children to a sky-high price of more than 3,000 yuan.
Adults who could not buy ibuprofen targeted Merrill Lynch and began to snap up children’s medicines, and even many strategies for adults to use Merrill Lynch appeared one after another.
This kind of behavior has caused the antipyretics for children, which were already in short supply, to become even more in short supply.
Some netizens also have their own views on this. Some netizens believe that although Merrill Lynch is a medicine for children, it is often wasted.
More netizens believe that Merrill Lynch itself is a drug, and it is no problem for adults to use it if they have a fever, but they should not hoard drugs, leaving families and children in need without drugs.
Unreasonable hoarding of medicines leads to a "drug shortage"
As the demand increases, the production pressure of original medicine manufacturers increases sharply.
Even if the production expansion is arranged now, it will take time to go through the production cycle and logistics and transportation. In addition, many products are chemical raw materials, and the requirements for environmental protection are very strict. To expand production, enterprises must go through a strict approval process. From production to inspection, it usually takes 5-7 days.
(ibuprofen production process)
This is why the supply is not in time. It is very difficult to ask the pharmaceutical factory to temporarily expand production within two or three months. It's normal.
In addition, the most critical factor of is: the irrational hoarding of medicines that started in late November.
A parent once shared the medicines he had hoarded. He visited 4 pharmacies and spent 1,500 yuan to buy 47 boxes of medicines including ibuprofen. And such people are not rare.
Actually, with the increasing number of positive now, we should realize that most people can’t take so many medicines.
Generally speaking, the fever lasts for about 3 days. Taking ibuprofen sustained-release capsules as an example, the interval between medications is about 12 hours. After the whole course of the disease, only a few capsules are needed.
Therefore, blind hoarding of medicines is not advisable.
In response to this market chaos, the state has also taken action, and all localities have introduced corresponding measures to ensure the supply of medicines.
Strictly crack down on speculation and malicious hoarding of medicines
In Leshan, Sichuan, a pharmacy sold ibuprofen at a price of 56 yuan for 4 yuan, and was investigated by the local city supervision bureau.
There are also stores, drug prices have increased by more than 240%, many places have issued warning letters, and those scalpers in Tianjin who fired Merrill Lynch for thousands of dollars were also arrested by the public security department.
" Price Law " Article 14
Operators shall not engage in the following unfair price behaviors:
(1) fabricate and disseminate information on price increases, drive up prices, and push commodity prices to rise too high;
(2) take Purchasing and selling goods or providing services by means of raising or lowering the grade, raising or lowering the price in a disguised form;
(3) seeking huge profits in violation of laws and regulations;
(4) other improper activities prohibited by laws and administrative regulations price action.
" Criminal Law " Article 225 [Crime of Illegal Business Operations]
Violating state regulations and disrupting market order, if the circumstances are serious, shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than five years or criminal detention, and shall also be fined not less than one time but not more than five times the illegal income ; If the circumstances are particularly serious, the offender shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than five years, and shall also be fined not less than one time but not more than five times the illegal income or confiscated property.
In addition, many cities began to put antipyretics on the market every day, and taking into account the actual needs, they disassembled and sold the medicines. Shandong, Changsha and other places have changed some nucleic acid sampling houses into street fever diagnosis and treatment stations.
(Upgraded fever clinics in many places in Shandong)
Some pharmaceutical companies also said that the supply of medicines will return to normal from late this month to early January.
Therefore, don’t worry if you can’t buy medicines at present. There are many Chinese and Western medicines to choose from from prevention to treatment. , Self-protection is the most important thing! Some content of
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