Chapter 3163

"Su Yun, I forgot to tell you something." Zheng Ren suddenly turned his head, looking at Su Yun, a bit embarrassed, "That uh... can the greater omentum be 3D printed?"

"Greater omentum?" Lin JiaoJiao was taken aback.

"Isn't this for a lung transplant? What do you need the greater omentum for? It's a kind of protective tissue in the abdominal cavity, right? Do we also have to open the abdomen while opening the chest?"

"Wait until you say the cucumber dish has gone cold." Su Yun said disdainfully, "Once it's ready, we'll send the greater omentum together with the lung tissue. Everyone says you've never done a lung transplant, so there must be some oversight."

"Hey." Zheng Ren ignored Su Yun's jab at him, just giving a simple, honest smile.

"Yun Ge'er, what do you need the greater omentum for?" Lin JiaoJiao asked, not understanding.

"After the tracheal anastomosis leaks air, wrapping the greater omentum around it helps it heal quickly. Generally, a lung transplant also requires a small abdominal incision to harvest a piece of the greater omentum. Although the incision isn't big, it's still an injury. Xiao Shitou's condition is average, so fewer cuts are better."

Lin JiaoJiao fell silent; if it came to technical issues, she couldn't possibly explain them clearly. She just kept company chatting with Zheng Lao Ban and Yun Ge'er because they liked discussing these things, to grow closer.

After a while, Lin Ge rushed over.

"Bureau Chief Lin, there's a medicine here; could you please take it to have its ingredients tested? We suspect the label's ingredients are wrong." Zheng Ren said, handing over the box of orchid grass ointment to Lin Ge.

Lin Ge looked at the box of medicine, first stunned, then reached out to take it, asking, "Did a kid have an accident from using this?"

"Huh? How do you know?" Zheng Ren asked, puzzled.

"I once encountered a medical dispute; our hospital had no issues, but the child showed symptoms. I grabbed the pediatric chief and searched from head to toe." Lin Ge fiddled with the box of orchid grass ointment in his hand, saying helplessly, "In the end, the clinical doctor said it seemed the patient's family had applied some ointment to the child, brought from outside."

"Then what?"

"I consulted in the group, and a medical department chief from the Jiangzhe region replied, saying they had conducted a judicial appraisal over this matter, but the process is still dragging on, with no final conclusion yet."

"Director Lin, you guys interact a lot, huh." Su Yun said.

"The group we added when the national Medical Department held a meeting; whoever encounters a problem just asks in the group. A few days ago, the incident at the Medical University Affiliated Hospital spread wildly in the group. Zheng Lao Ban, there are also over ten Medical Department heads who want to visit you; I've turned them all down for you."

Lin Ge laughed and said.

"Everyone pool ideas and efforts, help suggest a solution; this work at the Medical Department is tough."

"Director Lin, what happened with the dispute you encountered last time?" Zheng Ren didn't care what he looked like when angry, but continued to ask.

"That time it was a girl who had been applying this ointment since childhood; later, at eight months old, her family noticed her cheeks were puffed up like they were filled with air, her eyebrows were especially thick, and sometimes they heard her bones creaking."

"Only then did they realize something was wrong; they went to many hospitals for treatment but still didn't know what was happening. Later they suspected the ointment was the problem. The drug's instructions had no hormone listed, nor any age limit, nor any usage duration. Later, upon examination, they found the ointment was not a traditional Chinese medicine at all; its active ingredient was chlorobetasol propionate."

"" Zheng Ren felt a surge of qi rise in his chest, forming countless blocks.

Chlorobetasol propionate is a synthetically produced highly effective topical corticosteroid drug.

The drug has relatively strong anti-inflammatory, anti-itch, and capillary constriction effects; its anti-inflammatory effect is about 112.5 times that of hydrocortisone, 2.3 times that of betamethasone sodium phosphate, and 18.7 times that of fluocinolone.

It also inhibits cell mitosis and can effectively penetrate the skin's stratum corneum.

In other words, chlorobetasol propionate is not only a hormone but also one with relatively strong efficacy and penetration. Unscrupulous manufacturers add chlorobetasol propionate to "pure" Chinese medicine preparations without declaring it, causing many children to suffer.

"The test results are in, then what?" Zheng Ren suppressed the anger in his chest and said in a low voice.

"The Cosmetic Safety Technical Standards clearly prohibit adding ingredients harmful to human health in cosmetics; according to the national standards jointly issued by the State Administration for Market Regulation and other departments, it is explicitly stipulated that cosmetics must not contain the 41 types of corticosteroids including chlorobetasol propionate." Lin Ge said somewhat helplessly, "This is illegal; just sue them."

"A case was filed and investigated, then hearings were held continuously. The product's manufacturing company also said it would no longer sell the product. But in fact, this product is still being sold online."

Zheng Ren was truly helpless this time.

I'm not a lawyer, so there's no way I can help win the lawsuit. No matter how angry I get, there's no good solution.

"Director Lin, you really are well-informed; you know about this kind of thing." Su Yun sighed and said.

This is life experience, the accumulation of related experience, not something a genius can know everything just by talent.

"At the Medical Department, all kinds of things get dumped on your head. It's like when Huang Tianci helps solve things; if you don't know, a little trick could land you in a pit. Director Ye has said many times in meetings that work must be meticulous." Lin Ge also said helplessly, "Now social contradictions lie between hospitals and patients; the causes are very complex, you two also know how it is. Everything..."

Speaking, Lin Ge sighed, "Just do your best; being able to maintain the normal medical order of our 912 is already good; don't dare to think of more."

"How was that matter handled afterwards?" Su Yun asked.

"We explained the situation to the patient's family, saying it was caused by applying the ointment. The family didn't believe it, so they went to the Food and Drug Supervision Research Institute for testing, which confirmed that it indeed contained chlorobetasol propionate. So, the family sued the drug manufacturer, but that side dragged it out for a long time with no result. You two guess what happened afterwards? Later, the family came back and stubbornly clung to our Medical Department."

"What are they doing by clinging here?"

"No matter who is responsible or who compensates, you always have to find someone to blame. If you go after the manufacturer and they give you the runaround, and we ignore them, then they'll cling to the end." Lin Ge said, "Sitting in my office, accompanying me every day for tea and chat, they dragged it out for a little over a year. Only after the crackdown on black and evil forces did I warn them a few times and bring in comrades from the Branch Bureau to scare them, and then they stopped coming."

Zheng Ren also didn't know how to say this matter, but it could be confirmed that Dr. Zhao's child indeed had excessive intake of hormone due to chlorobetasol propionate, leading to symptoms like moon face.

As for what Dr. Zhao wants to do, Zheng Ren also doesn't know.

Most things in this world are really hard to say. Lin Ge came, and without even needing an examination, he knew the ointment contained chlorobetasol propionate; that's clinical experience.