CHAPTER 374: 348 HUMAN DEMONS

Now that the reduction was done, they could start to immobilize it, and then start medicating in the ward.

However, these things were not important anymore, as they were just routine procedures.

After briefly enjoying their adoring gazes, Du Heng immediately returned to the consultation room and started prescribing medication for Zhu Heizi.

The first prescription was the Bone Renewal Pill, an oral prescription for activating blood circulation, removing blood stasis, generating blood, and promoting bone growth. It contained angelica, rhubarbs, rehmannia, dipsacus, etc., with a total of twelve kinds of herbs.

After some contemplation, Du Heng wrote a second prescription, the whole body divine ointment. This formula contained twenty different herbs such as papaya, almond, Ginseng, gleditsia, rhizoma ligustici, and Liu Jinu. The paste was made by boiling the herbs into liquid and adding minium powder.

After a second round of consideration, Du Heng prescribed another pill, the Victory Gold Elixir.

After checking for errors, Du Heng called a nurse and handed her the first prescription.

Meanwhile, he started working on the other two formulations himself.

The latter two formulas were both ointments, with particularly complex preparation processes and specific order of ingredients. This was not something a nurse without the proper foundation in ointment preparation could accomplish.

All three prescriptions had more than fifty different herbs combined. If priced based on five doses of each medication, the total cost would exceed ten thousand yuan, which seemed not too different from the cost of surgery.

However, Zhu Heizi was a local resident and could enjoy up to an 85% reimbursement rate. With the addition of the medical insurance’s accidental injury coverage, the final reimbursement could reach 90%.

If the Health Clinic were to provide some additional discounts, he might end up spending around 1,000 yuan.

After staying up all night to prepare the ointments and only sleeping for a couple of hours, Du Heng got up.

He handed over the prepared medicines to Wu Buwei, who came in for the morning shift, and instructed him on how to use them. Then, he immediately packed up his things and rushed to the bureau.

There was a meeting at the bureau today, and he had been specifically told to attend. Lu Zhongjiang could not stand in for him.

However, Du Heng was more than happy to attend the meeting today. The reason was simple: the discussion was about allocating staff and funding.

The current Health Clinic had a combined 112 beds, which met the standard for a second-level hospital. With an occupancy rate of about 70 patients, this was a very good number.

As a member of the collaboration group between the Municipal First Hospital Emergency Department, Provincial First Hospital’s Chinese Medicine Department, and Digestion Department 1, the Health Clinic had a unique status among the district-level facilities. In comparison, even the District Hospital couldn’t compete with the Health Clinic’s reputation.

However, upgrading from a first-level hospital to a second-level hospital required a three-year assessment period, and it wasn’t just about meeting the bed count requirements.

That brought up another issue: with an increased number of beds and patients came the need for more medical staff. But without the hospital being upgraded, resource allocation posed a significant challenge. If the Health Clinic had to provide the funding for all these additional recruits, it would struggle to do so.

Thus, the purpose of today’s meeting was to discuss the allocation of staff and funding to Du Heng, as well as some personnel appointments and dismissals.

It wasn’t just Du Heng who was set to receive some funding; Li Qingde, Director of the newly merged High-tech Zone Comprehensive Health Service Station, was also present.

As it turned out, the meeting lasted from the morning until the afternoon. When Wang Shuqiu called Du Heng during the meeting’s most heated debate, he didn’t even manage to answer the phone. He promptly hung up and continued the debate.

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Wang Shuqiu was in a bad mood today because the very annoying Zhao Xinyuan was about to be released.

What was most unbearable was that her mother insisted on having her pick up this so-called cousin with her.

The reason was that she was more familiar with Jinzhou, and as a young college graduate, she would find it much easier to deal with the required procedures than the older farmers in their family.

Zhao Xinfang was also aware that his sister didn’t want to go. He didn’t want to see that family either.

But during his half-year in Jinzhou, Du Heng’s continuous treatment and his new job and girlfriend had made his mentality much more positive than before. His attitude toward that family had become more indifferent as well.

Even if seeing them still stirred up feelings of disgust, he could control his emotions better now.

So, knowing that his sister was going to pick up Zhao Xinyuan and fearing that she would be targeted by those shameless people, he volunteered to take time off to accompany her.

After completing the paperwork, picking up Zhao Xinyuan, bathing, and eating, it was already afternoon.

However, they showed no sign of leaving. Wang Shuqiu’s mother said she had something to discuss with her, so Wang Shuqiu had no choice but to reluctantly bring them to Zhao Xinfang’s rented apartment.

The family gathered around the tea table, with the uncle and aunt fawning over their eldest son and expressing their concern, as if the previous hours weren’t enough to show their parental love.

Zhao Xinyuan, on the other hand, responded to his parents with a smile, as if nothing had happened. He appeared to be a completely different person from the gaunt and thin man who resembled a madman before the incident.

Now, he held a fruit knife in his hand, carefully peeling an apple and cutting it into small pieces. He distributed the apple slices to his parents, his elder aunt, his "younger brother," and his cousin.

It seemed like he didn’t care about Zhao Xinfang and Wang Shuqiu sending him to jail at all.

Zhao Xinfang felt very uncomfortable with the behavior of the family across from him. Seeing their attitude toward Zhao Xinyuan, his heart began to race again.

He had overestimated his ability to control his emotions and underestimated the extent of his hatred for the two of them.

If it weren’t for Wang Shuqiu holding his hand, he might have simply exploded and stormed off.