This was the importance of connections that Jiang Cheng had mentioned before.
When you don't have contacts in a specific field yourself, the friends or business partners around you show their worth.
Jiang Cheng could find connections in this area through other people's networks.
After all, when one is sick, the difference between having connections at a hospital and not having them is truly significant.
But even if, in the worst-case scenario, the people around Jiang Cheng didn't have those connections,
It wouldn't matter.
Because he had money.
As long as he wanted, he could simply have Xu Lei or Zhu Yan rely on their massive customer network from investment promotion to find a group of top medical experts and establish a first-class expert team dedicated solely to serving him.
These problems could be solved easily.
Therefore, in this society, you either need connections or enough money.
Otherwise, once an ordinary person falls ill, they can only receive treatment at the nearest ordinary hospital.
But you must understand that not all doctors are excellent doctors.
Nor is all the equipment in every hospital advanced.
Generally speaking, the best medical talent and teams are definitely in first-tier cities.
Because these outstanding individuals are hired by major hospitals at high salaries as soon as they graduate.
Meanwhile, those from less famous medical universities can only find work in third or fourth-tier cities.
So, the difference in medical qualifications between hospitals is actually quite massive.
Not to mention those expensive pieces of medical equipment.
Hospitals in small places don't just buy second-hand medical devices discarded by big cities;
They can't even guarantee the quantity of the equipment.
There is usually only one emergency defibrillator, and only one ICU ward.
So, if your hospital has more than two people needing emergency resuscitation, the person who arrives later is out of luck.
The lucky ones are quickly transferred to other hospitals for treatment, but some unfortunate ones die directly while waiting for professional medical rescue equipment.
This is also why many wealthy people choose to settle in big cities.
For some tricky illnesses, if you are treated in Magic City or the Capital, the chances of survival are very high.
But if you receive treatment in a small city, there is an eighty percent chance you might lose your life because of it.
Big cities naturally occupy the best education and medical services.
Jiang Cheng understood this logic, and Lin Qingxue naturally understood it too—in fact, she felt it even more deeply.
Because she was an unfortunate victim of this social system.
Before, she didn't understand these various invisible barriers in society.
She had once naively believed that everyone in the world was equal.
It wasn't until her mother contracted uremia that she realized some things simply cannot be solved by following normal procedures.
For example, the issue of a kidney source.
From the moment her mother was diagnosed with Acute Renal Failure, their family registered on the waiting list for a kidney.
After filling out all the information and submitting it successfully, she originally thought she could finally see hope.
But after joining the hospital's patient group, Lin Qingxue was completely disappointed.
Because some patients ahead of them had already been waiting for a kidney for three or four years, and some had even been waiting for ten years.
This meant her mother might be like them, unable to get a kidney even after three or four years.
Lin Qingxue said to Jiang Cheng with some anxiety, 'My mother has Acute Renal Failure. Although her condition was initially brought under control after being rescued in the ICU, she needs Dialysis three times a week. The doctor said she either has to rely on Dialysis to sustain her life indefinitely or find a suitable kidney for a transplant.'
Jiang Cheng frowned. 'uremia? This is the first time I've heard of it. You mean she ultimately needs a Kidney Transplant, right?'
Lin Qingxue nodded quickly upon hearing this and rapidly relayed the information she had learned to Jiang Cheng.
'Although this disease isn't life-threatening for a short while, if it's not controlled well, it easily leads to various complications. If complications flare up, it becomes very dangerous—one wrong turn and...'
'I asked the doctor before; he said that with this disease, the progression is different for everyone. Since the kidneys can no longer function, she has to go to the hospital every few days to use a Dialysis machine to lead the blood out of her body, use the machine to clear the toxins from the blood, and then lead it back into her body.'
'In other words, she has to change her blood every few days. My mother's Creatinine levels drop after each Dialysis session, but they rise quickly the next day, sometimes even reaching seven or eight hundred or even over a thousand. So she belongs to the group that needs frequent Dialysis—three times a week, about twelve times a month.'
Jiang Cheng stroked Lin Qingxue's hair comfortingly.'So, because of this, you've been working part-time jobs and eating nothing but plain white rice?'
Lin Qingxue seemed to have found an outlet for her pent-up emotions. 'Because of the ICU stay, my mother was in there for about a month before being moved to a general ward. Our family spent all our savings and borrowed money from relatives. When my mother was hospitalized, she was very weak and needed someone to care for her, so my father lost his job because of it. Overnight, our family...'
Lin Qingxue wiped her tears and continued, 'I'm the only daughter. When this happened at home, I was powerless. I originally wanted to drop out of school to work, but my parents wouldn't agree. They said if I just endure for two more years, I'll graduate, and they couldn't let my future be ruined because of this.'
'I really had no choice. Even working part-time to earn some of my own living expenses was very difficult; I simply didn't have the ability to help the family.'
'And even if we do find a kidney, the cost of the transplant will be several hundred thousand yuan.'