Chapter 272: The Medicine Depot Has No Medicines for Emergency
In the shack area on the east side of Huimin Pharmaceuticals, torches were everywhere, and many medical officials carried frames of quicklime everywhere. This was the only thing that could be disinfected in ancient times when facing the epidemic.
In the autumn, the nights are still quite cold, but everyone is sweating on their heads.
Unlike Chen Buer and his friends who were sweating from hot pot, the sweat on their heads were scared.
There is a special situation that Lu Enyu did not dare to report to the upper class before. People were dead in the shack area and the slums next to him.
This means that this "epidemic and dysentery" has been going on for a while. If Chen Buer and the others had not arrived by chance, these big men from Huimin Pharmaceutical Bureau would not know how long it would take to discover the epidemic next door.
If the whole city spreads, it will be a huge disaster.
Even medical officials in the Great Zhou Dynasty were so arrogant and separated from the masses. It is conceivable what the entire officialdom has become.
Lu Enyu looked at the corpses with a smell of feces all over his body, including men, women, adults and children, a total of twenty-three people, neatly placed on the ground, and his scalp was numb.
Not only Lv Enyu, but also a total of fifty medical officers from all over the Huimin Medical Bureau.
If you want to pursue responsibility, you will be exiled to Yazhou.
Lu Enyu swallowed his saliva, "The epidemic cannot be waited for. Now the body cannot be transported out of Xijiaofang. People come to get firewood and get it to the open space next to it, and then cremate it."
As soon as these words were spoken, the officials next to them agreed:
"Yes, yes, the earlier the cremation, the better. You can't let the plague spread everywhere."
"What Lord Lu said is extremely true, and the emperor agrees."
"We still have a lot of matches and charcoal in our pharmacy, so I'll get it right away."
Everyone immediately reached a tacit understanding, that is, to destroy the corpses as soon as possible. Anyway, those who die will be proletarian and unrighteous untouchables or poor households. If these people die, who will actually investigate?
As mentioned earlier, Chai Zijin can reach thousands of people in Xijiaofang.
As long as it can be concealed and covered up, even if someone reports it later, the matter will be left unresolved without evidence.
After a while, the fire began to ignite, and all the sins and ugliness were burned clean with the fire, and everyone was sweating.
But dead people are so hot, are there hundreds of living people there?
Just this afternoon, the scope of the investigation expanded and many patients with high fever and diarrhea were found in the private houses. All of them had the same symptoms and were immediately classified as "digestion".
The total number of people has now reached more than 400 people, which is twice that of the morning. If it doubles again tomorrow, it will be thousands.
Wu Zhiye has been busy treating patients. Now he lacks everything, lacks medicinal materials, and lacks nursing staff.
In such a dirty and messy environment, even clean food and drinking water cannot be guaranteed, the condition will only become worse and worse, and more and more people will be infected.
Wu Zhiye knew that this would not work. He was about to go to find Lu Enyu when he suddenly saw a fire that surged into the sky not far away.
All the medical officers, including the imperial guards, looked up, and for a moment, everyone was stunned, and then there were bursts of screams of low voices.
There was a sudden burst of fire during the plague. Everyone present had experience, which means that many people had died and were burning the bodies.
Everyone sighed in their hearts. This was a real disaster, and everyone was worried about themselves and their families.
Wu Zhiye didn't scold anything loudly. This was not something he could control, and it was also an unspoken rule in the industry, but he was anxious.
There were thirty patients he was responsible for, but only two doctors from Huimin Pharmaceutical Bureau were given to him. Three of them had to boil medicine, clean up the patients, and observe the condition. It was too late.
The same situation also occurs in other groups.
The fifty medical officers of Huimin Pharmaceutical Bureau, including doctors, doorkeepers, canteens, and cleaning staff, total less than one hundred people.
More than 400 patients are far exceeding the burden.
Wu Zhiye was still lowering his head to feed a patient medicine, and the doctor over there was shouting: "Mr. Wu, the white-headed man is gone."
"The yellow cypress on our side is gone, either!"
"Who of you has Qin Pi? I'm gone!"
The shouts of lack of medicine came one after another in the front hall and wards of Huimin Pharmaceutical Bureau. Suddenly, everyone's hearts became stale.
For epidemics, dysentery, the classic prescription for traditional Chinese medicine is "Baitouweng Decoction and Shaoyao Decoction".
Everyone knows this prescription. All the relevant medicinal materials in Huimin Pharmaceutical Bureau have been taken out, but in just half a day, there is no myrrh?
Wu Zhiye stood up, and the change in his position caused a dizziness. He stabilized for a while and then said:
"What's going on? Huimin Pharmaceutical Bureau should have medicinal materials that can be used for at least 10,000 people for seven days. Why did it disappear in less than half a day?"
The doctor couldn't say anything anymore.
"Mr. Wu, I don't know about this, but the medicine bank is really out of myrrh, and the villain will definitely not dare to hide it."
"The medicine warehouse is gone?"
Wu Zhiye immediately realized something and really wanted to curse him, "All medical officials from Huimin Pharmaceutical Bureau should be killed!"
The news of the lack of medicine in each medical team immediately came to Lu Enyu, and Lord Lu was so anxious that he slapped several deputy directors next to him.
"You are doing good things. I usually ask you to prepare more medicinal herbs, but I don't listen. What should I do now? What should I do? The Tai Hospital, Taichang Temple, and even the Political Affairs Hall, and the palace are about to arrive. What do you think you will do?"
Vice Chief Zhang knew that the matter was going on, and said with a sad face:
"Mr. Lu, it's not time to say who is taking the blame now. I'll think of a solution. If you really find out from above, there are ones here, and no one can escape. This is a serious crime of beheading."
The whole world suddenly became chaotic in the house. The epidemic broke out too suddenly, and it was so sudden that they had no time to close their positions.
As a welfare medical institution supported by the imperial court, Huimin Pharmaceutical Bureau received a large amount of funding. One of its main responsibilities is to reserve emergency medicines and provide life-saving purposes in times of crisis in the country.
This function is the same as the "Jiayou Cang" in the national grain warehouse.
But no matter how good the system is, if there is no power to supervise, a group of monks will always sing the scriptures.
For the superiors, no matter how greedy the people at Huimin Pharmaceutical Bureau are, as long as nothing happens, the superiors actually turn a blind eye. After all, everyone has a share of the money.
Chapter completed!