The Wider Image: Sri Lanka’s cancer patients struggle amid economic

Chamindu Dissanayake, 4, who has been diagnosed with acute myeloid leukaemia, sits in a rickshaw with his father Sisira Kumara Dissanayake, 35, as they prepare to travel back to their home after being discharged from Apeksha Hospital, in Colombo, Sri Lanka, August 15, 2022. “It takes between 8 and 10 hours to get here. We can’t come by bus because the doctors said exposing him to strangers and outside environment was dangerous for his health. But since we can’t afford a car or van we have no other option but to take him in my rickshaw.”   REUTERS/Kim Kyung-Hoon