Kumar Ajit spent more than a week calling dozens of pharmacies in India before he tracked down the platinum-based cancer drug cisplatin his 70-year old mother needed to treat her liver cancer.
"I could not even get the desired dosage," added Ajit, who eventually found the medicine in New Delhi, the capital, and had it shipped to his village in the eastern state of Bihar. "I'm unsure what I will do for the next dose."
