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(Charts・ manga) [Social] Life-saving medicine is coming

(Charts・ manga) [Social] Life-saving medicine is coming

Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, January 1, 2022

Comics: The lifesaver is coming

Spinal muscular atrophy is a rare disease of hereditary neuromuscular diseases, with an incidence of about 1/6000 to 1/10,000 in newborns in China, and there are currently more than 30,000 patients. Zhao Yuying, director of the Department of Neurology genetic metabolic diseases and rare diseases at Qilu Hospital of Shandong University, said that Nocinasin sodium injection is China's first imported drug approved for the treatment of spinal muscular atrophy. When entering the Chinese market in 2019, the price per needle was nearly 700,000 yuan, and its expensive price was unbearable for the patient's family.

On December 3, 2021, the National Medical Insurance Bureau announced 74 new drugs into medical insurance, and the widely concerned "sky-high life-saving drug" Nocinacine sodium injection was listed among them. After 8 rounds of negotiations, the drug entered the new version of the medical insurance drug catalog at a "floor price" of 33,000 yuan per needle, which made many patients see hope.

Xinhua News Agency published by Shang Haichun

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