Chapter 317 Time Is Money My Friend
Gretel walked out of the infectious disease hospital quickly. As he walked, he shouted:
"All priests of the Order of the God of Nature! Come to my mage tower! All! Put down your work and your patients! Immediately!!!"
He added a sound amplification technique to himself, and the sound shook the whole building. Answers sounded one after another from behind:
"OK!"
"coming!"
"immediately!"
Grete stopped waiting for them and walked straight forward. As soon as they stepped down the steps, a horse rushed over with billowing smoke. The knight jumped down and hurriedly grabbed Gretel:
"I'm here! Why are there so many patients all at once? What kind of disease is it? What else needs to be done?"
The person who came was tall, with a resolute face and a weather-beaten face. It was Johnny Colin, the Minister of Emergency Management. Minister Colin had dealt with Gretel several times and knew that he would never cause trouble to anyone, but it would definitely be a big deal if he did. Grete asked him for help before, and he immediately dispatched operators from the Emergency Management Department according to the original plan.
A group of men in black, together with Gretel's apprentices, were busy sealing off the neighborhood, picking up people door-to-door, and taking samples for testing. Colin did not lead the team himself, but sat down in the city hall and forced the person in charge to send out patrols to help. ——The Emergency Management Department handles all emergency matters related to magicians. Where is the manpower? At this time, we must decisively drag the city hall into trouble!
He was not someone who had never seen the plague before. He estimated that the first wave of outbreaks would have tens of hundreds of patients. However, as the carriages came back and forth, the numbers reported by subordinates increased and exceeded two hundred in the morning. Johnny Colin couldn't sit still and came to the door in person to ask what happened to Gretel.
Gretel grabbed him with his backhand. While continuing to walk outside the hospital, he spoke faster:
"I'm looking for you! Do you still remember that time when I asked you to chase the spies in the middle of the night? Several horses had black spots on their bodies, and some soldiers got sick as well? - It was that disease, this time it was the water source that was contaminated , pathogenic bacteria attack through the intestines, which is more dangerous! I need your help!"
Johnny Colin's whole body trembled. That operation was still fresh in his memory. Their entire emergency management department was picked up in the middle of the night and ran along the mountain road for two days and two nights. It is said that the person who caused such a big battle was a high-level magician with a prophecy system, who divined a very bad omen.
And this time, Gretel said it was more dangerous than last time...
"What else do you need me to do?" he asked in a deep voice. Gretel answered without hesitation:
"Three things. First, screen the residents of those 12 buildings again. If there are any signs of discomfort, send them all to the hospital as soon as possible;
Second, take water samples from the main drainage pipes of each floor and send them to me for testing. If possible, take water samples from the main sluice of each building. If it is determined that the water body is contaminated, trace the water source as soon as possible;
Third, according to the household list, people who work or study outside are sent to the hospital as soon as possible. All the places where these people were staying must be disinfected with double-concentration disinfectant! Double! And you and your subordinates, be sure to pay attention to safety when performing tasks, and don’t touch anything to eat until you’ve returned home, washed your hands, and changed your clothes—”
"I'll make arrangements right away!" Johnny led the horse and followed him. After hearing these requests, he immediately jumped on the horse. After taking two steps, he suddenly reined in his horse and turned around, scanning behind Gretel:
"Is your infectious disease hospital big enough? Can it accommodate so many people?"
Grete looked embarrassed. His infectious disease hospital has a rated capacity of 1,000 beds - the original plan was that if all these beds were really used, all the healers in the city would be brought here, and the patients would be sent away as soon as they were cured...
Next to the hospital, there is also an isolation observation point that can accommodate 1,000 people. Now it seems that it is not enough. If all the residents of the 12 buildings are brought over for observation, the number of hospital beds will have to be doubled.
He needs a makeshift hospital! Temporary isolation point is needed! Volunteers are needed to deliver food and water to those suspected, close contacts and observation subjects! Someone even needs to clean up their poop! It requires the entire social support system to work together behind the scenes——
It was not that Grete had not thought of these needs when planning the infectious disease hospital and public health center. After all, he had seen the disaster before time travel and how the entire social system worked together in the face of disaster. However, as a third-level magician and the director of the Department of Public Health, he can only mobilize so many resources.
For other requirements, the reviewer will give him the following reply:
"we'll talk about it then."
Now that a lot of resources are needed, Grete wants to go to the review meeting, but can't spare the time. Johnny looked at his troubled expression and nodded: "I understand. You need to expand your territory to accommodate more people, right? Leave it to me!"
Before Grete could answer, he had already whipped him and quickly left. Grete shouted from behind him: "Thank you!"
"Thank you for what?" Johnny Colin said without looking back:
"I am also from Xiacheng District! I should help them!"
Gretel breathed a sigh of relief and rushed to the Mage Tower with the students. In the tower, there is the special medicine he has just made recently, and there is the only hope to fight against this plague——
A strange smell filled the mage tower. The cauldron was simmering with thick corn slurry, and the strange smell of fermented penicillin was too strong to melt away. Gretel stopped in front of the fermentation room, turned around and looked at the female apprentice of the Order of the God of Nature:
"You wait here until the priests from the Order of the God of Nature arrive and tell them how to induce the growth of Penicillium! I need them to use all their strength to promote the growth of Penicillium! All their strength!"
The female apprentice pursed her lips and nodded. Gretel grabbed another apprentice of the Change School and continued walking inside:
"Tell Mr. Norwood to expand the refining magic circle ten times! A hundred times! Five hundred times! Or make dozens more! I need him to expand production capacity! Immediately! Immediately!"
penicillin! penicillin! When there were no cephalosporins or other antibacterial agents, the only effective drug against intestinal anthrax was penicillin! Luckily he had already made it before! Isolated a strain of Penicillium and made sodium penicillin!
Gretel rushed to the top of the mage tower. Next to the control room, there is a small refrigerator that stores the most precious materials. Open the refrigerator door and take out a small glass bottle. One inch high and half an inch in diameter, it can't even fill the palm of your hand. It's so tiny -
We were still in the process of strain selection and trial production before, and had not entered the mass production stage at all. So far, all penicillin sodium has not been used in culture, fermentation, refining and storage. Such a small bottle is only filled with 10 bottles.
In each bottle, there are a little more than 5 grams and less than 6 grams.
0.48 grams of penicillin sodium is equal to 800,000 units, and 4.8 grams is equal to 8 million units. For patients with pulmonary and intestinal anthrax and concurrent meningitis, large-dose penicillin G, 4 to 8 million units, once every 6 hours, intravenously infused -
In other words, in the best case scenario, these penicillin sodium can only save 10 lives.
We can only hope that the priests of the God of Nature will speed up - the power of so many priests is many times more powerful than one apprentice!
And the damn IV! He still doesn't dare to start intravenous injection rashly because he is not sure about the sterilization effect of the injection, the sterilization effect of the injection tube is unstable (he can only induce vines now), and the sealing effect of the connection between the injection needle and the syringe is unstable!
In this case, using intravenous injection rashly is equivalent to injecting bacteria into the patient's blood vessels!
There was really no other way but to take a gamble with intramuscular injection... Gretel's thoughts were racing. If you don't get treatment, you will die anyway, so you need to inject a large dose of penicillin into the muscle... By the way, you also need to prepare a needle!
The injection needles in the Mage Tower are usually used for animal experiments, no more than 50 at a time, and destroyed after use. How many patients are there now? How many secondary syringes do I need to prepare?
Gretel sat down in the storeroom. He opened the space bag and took out a large piece of glass, a piece of metal specially provided by the dwarves - it is said to be a top-secret formula and will not rust - and a large bag of gold coins. He grabbed a handful of gold coins and threw them to the ground, making a jingling sound.
This is a strategic material for emergencies. Gretel usually keeps it sealed and is reluctant to touch it, but now, it’s time to use it on a large scale!
He held the silver bell. He pressed his palm hard enough to almost squeeze out water from the surface of the bell, and said in a deep voice:
“Time is money my friend!”
His speech was very fast and smooth, without any weird accent. Blue smoke soon appeared from the bell, and the little monster jumped down. Gretel pointed at the supplies on the ground and said in a hurry:
"Make syringes! 10ml ones! Make 1,000 syringes first! Hurry!"
The little monster's hands flew. The glass, metal and gold coins on the ground seemed to have fallen into a magic furnace and melted silently. The metal is cut, pressed into thin sheets, curled, and chipped to ensure that the needle tube is straight and even, the needle tip has a sharp bevel, and sufficient strength and smoothness are ensured;
The glass turns red, liquefies, flows, rises in the air, and is shaped into a hollow syringe, the end of which opens to wrap around the end of the metal needle;
The other end fits tightly and can be pushed smoothly without any leakage...
A syringe, and another syringe, appeared brightly in front of Gretel. It's just that the speed is a bit slow, and I can only make 2 sticks per minute. At this speed, I can only make 120 sticks in an hour!
"Can you hurry up?" he urged:
"Can the speed be increased by 5 times? Can we make 600 pieces in one hour?"
Intramuscular injection is simple to operate, and with a little training, every student can complete it independently. If the production capacity of penicillin can keep up, and the production capacity of syringes can also keep up, and intramuscular injections can be completed for 600 patients within an hour - then perhaps hundreds more lives can be saved!
The gremlin was concentrating on manipulating his magic power and did not answer him. It wasn't until another syringe fell to the ground that it replied hoarsely:
"It costs money. To increase the speed by 5 times, you need 25 times the gold coins."
"Take it!"
Grete picked up the money bag and fell down without even counting it.
Time is money my friend!
This moment, time, is life!
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ps, reading has plummeted recently... Is it because my writing is not good and no one reads it, or is it because the summer vacation is coming to an end and the children are all going to make up for their summer homework?
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