Chapter 668: 669: Why Won't You Give Me Medicine

Chapter 668: Chapter 669: Why Won’t You Give Me Medicine

Seeing them go for medical treatment, Su Shu said, “You two going might also be too busy, I heard that the hospital over there is especially short-handed. So, Lu Tong?”

“I’m here.”

Behind her, Lu Tong called out.

“You take your younger brothers and sisters to play at the Luo Family for a while. I’ll go change my clothes and accompany grandpa and grandma down the hill for medical treatment. Be careful, okay?”

Lu Tong nodded, “Okay, Aunt Su, go ahead without worrying, I’ll take good care of my younger siblings.”

Military Hospital.

Su Shu accompanied the elderly of the Ge Family for their medical treatment.

While waiting, she also observed the surroundings.

Since the onset of winter, the number of people with colds, fevers, and coughs had increased, and the hospital was overcrowded; every day, the medical staff were extremely busy.

Moreover, the various versions of rumors in the safe zone had been increasing recently, some of which were outright nonsense.

Yet, people believed even those ridiculous rumors.

Getting treatment was already difficult, let alone if one’s symptoms were exactly what the hospital was currently short of in medicine.

Then the patient was doomed. Their temper on the spot, they almost felt like burning down the entire hospital.

Just in the short time she sat here, less than half an hour, there had already been three or four medical disputes.

Someone was shouting: “What kind of doctors and nurses are you! I came here for treatment, and I’ve brought something to pay for medical fees, and you’re telling me you’re out of this medicine! What the hell are you all eating for! Is it because we, the disaster victims without power or influence, aren’t getting medicine from you?

What, some people get medicine and by the time it’s my turn, you clack your jaws together and dismiss me with a ‘no medicine’? I’m telling you, no way!

Today, I’m seeking justice. Either we all go without medicine, or just give me the medicine quickly. I’m not taking it for free, why shouldn’t I get it? Come on, everyone, speak up, does that make any sense?”

Among the bystanders, some enjoyed the drama and didn’t mind escalating matters, grinning broadly as they echoed loudly, “Exactly, if you’ve seen the doctor you should get medicine, what’s this about hiding it?”

Others watched coldly, not offering any opinion at all.

After all, it’s not like they don’t have their own medicine to worry about.

Su Shu watched from a distance with Fu Shiyin.

The few medical staff at the dispensary tried to explain clearly why other patients could immediately receive their medicines, but this patient temporarily could not.

Currently, not only was this hospital’s medical supply like this, but other regional medical institutions also faced the same problem.

After the Apocalypse, the urban ecosystem suffered visible damage. All factories, not just the pharmaceutical ones, almost 95 percent had shut down.

The remaining five percent of factories, mostly around Capital City, were operating at minimal capacity to produce supplies, which they then distributed nationwide— a mere drop in the bucket.

Moreover, City C was far from Capital City, and even if supplies could be transported from there, it required time.

At the moment, the variety of medicines in the hospital was indeed very tight.

A nurse cried out, “We are doctors and nurses; we don’t produce the medicines. The storeroom really has run out of it; what can we do! If we had the medicine, wouldn’t we give it to everyone? Can’t everyone just understand our situation a bit more?”

“Understand you! Ah, to hell with that! Do you deserve it! Don’t think that we common people don’t know anything. How come everything was fine before, but just today you are out of medicine? I think you got a heads-up and hoarded the medicines in advance. Later, when we are scrounging around underground, you’ll use them for yourselves!”