Sudden enteritis on the way home for the New Year, helpless to go to the high speed to buy medicine... Can a drug vending machine be set up in the high-speed service area

The Shandong expressway service area only sells food and other goods, and cannot buy medicines.

Text/Photo Peninsula All-Media Chief Reporter Wang Yongduan Intern Wen Yaoyan (except by signature)

Although the Spring Festival has passed, talking about the crisis in the stomach still makes Zhang Xin feel embarrassed.

On January 31, the 29th day of the Lunar New Year, Like most people who returned to their hometowns for the Spring Festival, Zhang Xin's family of three drove from Qingdao along the northern line of the Jinan-Qingdao Expressway back to their hometown in Jinan, preparing to celebrate the festival with their parents. However, in the middle, when Zhang Xin, who had sudden enteritis, wanted to buy antidiarrheal drugs in the highway service area, he did not buy them in many service areas. In desperation, he had to get off the highway to buy drugs.

Earlier, when the peninsula all-media reporter asked for verification from multiple service areas of the Jiqing Expressway, the service area said that "drugs are not sold." To this end, when the reporter visited some service areas of the Qinglan Expressway, he also got a response of "no drug sales".

However, some doctors and drivers believe that it is necessary to set up automated drug vending machines or small counters in the large service areas of the highway to sell over-the-counter drugs to facilitate passing drivers or relieve the difficulties of passengers in urgent need.

The fact is that drug sales points have been set up in the highway service area, and in recent years, there have been calls from all over the world. In the face of the call, the "medicine box", "one-minute clinic" and "24-hour self-service drug vending machine" set up earlier in Chongqing, Nanjing, Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces in the high-speed service areas under their jurisdiction won applause.

The driver suddenly developed enteritis on his way home

"After graduating from university, I have been working in Qingdao for 13 years." Zhang Xin said, "A few years ago, my wife, children and I drove to my hometown of Jinan Changqing. ”

Since it was Chinese New Year's Eve that day, considering the possible traffic jam, Zhang Xin drove to his hometown through the north line of the Jinan-Qingdao Expressway early in the morning. When the car drove to the nearby section of the Jimo District, Zhang Xin suddenly felt uncomfortable in his stomach.

"My stomach grunted and ached faintly." Zhang Xin said, "At that time, I wondered if I had a bad stomach when I had eaten with friends the night before. ”

But the noise in the stomach is getting louder and louder, and the stomach is rolling. In desperation, he hurriedly drove the car into a nearby service area. In the bathroom of the service area, Zhang Xin found himself diarrhea.

Walking out of the bathroom, Zhang Xin came to the service area hall, and when asking the waiter whether the service area sold drugs, the service staff said that they would not sell drugs. Faced with the abnormality of her husband's stomach, Zhang Xin's wife hurriedly received hot water in the service area and let Zhang Xin drink it.

The hot water drunk still did not change the status quo of Zhang Xin's stomach. In this way, Zhang Xin still drove a car carrying the family to Jinan, two or three hundred kilometers away.

While making trouble with his stomach and suffering from the congestion on the road, Zhang Xin at that time urgently needed antidiarrheal drugs or drugs to treat the stomach and intestines.

"Stomach pain, but more embarrassing than stomach pain is pulling thin." Zhang Xin said that between the congestion, the vehicle rushed to the Weifang West Service Area. For him, the first thing he did when he entered the service area was to run to the bathroom. This time when he entered the bathroom, he obviously felt that the diarrhea was more serious.

When he entered the bathroom, Zhang Xin's wife had already asked the service staff in the hall whether to sell drugs for the treatment of the stomach and intestines, and the answer was still "No, the service area does not sell drugs."

"At that time, I wondered whether to go down the highway to buy medicine." Zhang Xin said, "There was a traffic jam on the road that day, and if I got off the highway, I didn't know when I would be able to get home." ”

In this case, Zhang Xin was unable to drive, and at this time his wife took the steering wheel and drove on the road.

High-speed service area: no drugs are sold

At this time, Zhang Xin, who was leaning on the co-pilot, pressed his stomach hard. In this way, he insisted until the Zibo service area. The first time the vehicle entered the service area, Zhang Xin pulled the car door and rushed into the bathroom.

In this service area, Zhang Xin still has not bought antidiarrheal drugs and stomach medicines. The family who were eager to go home still insisted on going on the road, and when the car drove to the Zouping West service area, Zhang Xin entered the service area again.

"In addition to going into the service area to go to the bathroom, I still want to be able to buy medicine here." Zhang Xin said that this time, like the previous times, he did not buy it. At this time, he could not hold on, and several hours of pulling had already made him have hemorrhoids.

Looking at him who could not bear the pain, his wife decided to temporarily get off the highway and go to the nearest city or suburb to buy medicine. At a small pharmacy near downtown Zouping, Zhang Xin bought antidiarrheal drugs such as montmorillonite powder. At the pharmacy, he couldn't wait to take the medicine.

At this time, it was about 3 p.m., and he had left Qingdao for 8 hours.

"In the past, you can get to Jinan in 4 hours, but this time it will take 11 hours." Zhang Xin, who returned to Qingdao years later, said with a smile, "Fortunately, I went home to catch Chinese New Year's Eve meal." ”

He had never experienced a stomach upset on the highway before, and he couldn't imagine that this time he had a personal experience: there were no commonly used drugs for sale on the highway, and it was really inconvenient at the critical moment.

"If some large service areas set up common drug sales points, or set up a vending machine, it will be much more convenient." Zhang Xin said he had found no drug sales points in the highway service area under his jurisdiction in Shandong.

In response to Zhang Xin's reaction, the Peninsula all-media reporter contacted the Weifang service area of the Jinan-Qingdao Expressway, and a staff member of the service area said that there was indeed no drug counter or drug sales point in their service area.

The staff of the Zibo service area also told the peninsula all-media reporter that there was no drug for sale in their service area, and the service area only provided daily food.

"It is necessary to set up a vending machine"

There are no commonly used drugs for sale in the large service area of the Jiqing Expressway North Line, so do some of the service areas of the Qinglan Expressway have commonly used drugs for sale?

To this end, the peninsula all-media reporter set off from Qingdao to visit the Zhucheng service area, Zhucheng West service area, Yishui service area, Zhuge service area and other service areas from east to west of the Qinglan Expressway, and the staff of the service area told reporters that there is no drug counter in the service area and does not provide drugs to the drivers and passengers.

In the interview, a staff member of the Zibo service area of the Jiqing Expressway said that they could provide motion sickness medicine or bandages if passengers needed it, but at present they have not received instructions to set up a drug counter in the service area.

In fact, before, some drivers and passengers have said that it is difficult to buy drugs for the treatment of some common diseases such as headaches, diarrhea, and stomach pain in the service area of the Shandong regional highway.

"If only some large service areas could set up counters for commonly used drugs." A doctor at a hospital in Qingdao said, "Similar to antidiarrheal drugs, gastrointestinal medicines, wind oil essence, Huoxiang zhengqi water, etc., small counters or automatic drug vending machines can be appropriately set up." ”

The doctor believes that prescription drugs cannot be sold casually, but antidiarrheal drugs, gastrointestinal drugs, as well as wind oil essence and Huoxiang zhengqi water, can bring convenience to the driver and passenger to a certain extent.

High-speed drug vending machines in other places are popular

Drug sales points have been set up in the highway service area, and in recent years, there have been calls from all over the world.

Since June 2020, Zhejiang Province has set up 24-hour self-service drug vending machines in various high-speed service areas. These vending machines are located next to the information desk in the service area, similar to the vending machines you usually see. The drugs inside are all over-the-counter drugs, these drugs mainly have gastrointestinal drugs, topical hemostatic and anti-inflammatory drugs, anti-heat and anti-sickness drugs, antipyretic and detoxification drugs and other 4 categories, commonly used Fupu, swelling and pain relief tincture, children's antipyretic patches, six flavor dihuang pills, four seasons cold tablets, Herbs summer capsules, erythromycin ointment and other more than 50 kinds of drugs, can be bought in the vending machine.

The drugs in these drug vending machines can be purchased through WeChat and Alipay scan code payment. There is a database in the background of the drug vending machine, and there are special personnel to replace and increase drugs in time.

This initiative in Zhejiang Province has been welcomed by drivers and passengers, especially large truck drivers. Some drivers said they no longer had to buy medicine at high speeds when they had headaches, heat stroke and motion sickness.

Zhejiang's initiative is not the only one in the country.

Earlier, some highway service areas under the jurisdiction of Chongqing Municipality also set up "medicine boxes", and drivers in the past could purchase commonly used drugs that they temporarily needed in the medical boxes.

At the beginning of 2019, Nanjing set up "one-minute clinics" in 26 service areas and 52 stations to provide rapid one-stop medical and health services for drivers and passengers passing through the service areas. The "One Minute Clinic" contains two functional modules: "Independent Consultation Room" and "Smart Medicine Cabinet". Among them, the "independent consultation room" provides users with services including consultation and medication advice; the "smart medicine cabinet" provides users with more than 100 kinds of low-temperature refrigerated commonly used drugs. There is no fee for the "Independent Consultation Room" section, only for the purchase of medicines.