Why Russian children with blood cancer are left without adequate treatment
On the gray market in Russia, prices for vincristine, an essential drug for treating children with blood cancer, skyrocketed at least 20-fold in 2020. Hospitals and pharmacies across the country are running out of this life-saving drug.
Parents try to get the drug in any way they can, for any price, because every day of waiting can cost little patients their lives. But according to the law, doctors have no right to take drugs “off the hand” – for this they can face imprisonment. Here’s how I did the research and where I got the data.
