Meeting the high cost of cancer treatment
Three years ago the Ramakrishna* family were waiting for their life to end in their village on the outskirts of the city. It was not just that their young son had cancer. It was that in trying to meet the cost of his treatment, the family had sold everything they owned and run themselves deep into debt. The head of the family, a poor priest, could not hope to pay back what he had borrowed. Luckily for them, a cancer hospital and a patient support group stepped in and the boy got treatment for free.