"Then for children with this disease, to be fully treated, wouldn't it cost eight to nine million?"
Hearing Ms. Liu say this, Wei Wei was somewhat shocked and also found it hard to believe why a shot of this medicine could cost more than 500,000.
After all, in her understanding, with technological advancements, drugs that were initially very expensive are now being mass-produced and have become much cheaper.
Take penicillin for example, which was as precious as gold a hundred years ago, but now its production cost is just a few cents.
"Yes, the special drug for treating Spinal Muscular Atrophy, Nusinersen, is incredibly expensive. And 500,000 is the current price; when Nusinersen first entered our country, it cost a million per dose."
Zhao Heng nodded as well. He hadn't expected Ms. Liu to be particularly concerned about children with Spinal Muscular Atrophy. Yet, this group of patients differs from other patients.
