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

Sudhagaran Punawadee, 30, shows a pack of medicine prescribed to her daughter Sudhagaran Sadurshana, 9, who has been diagnosed with acute myeloid leukaemia, as they pack their belongings before travelling home after being discharged from Apeksha Hospital, at a cancer care transit home, Colombo, Sri Lanka, August 12, 2022. “We have to go there by bus, we know that’s not comfortable for our child but what else can we do? We have no other choice.” Punawadee Said. “Currently, increases of transport and food prices are the biggest problems for us. Most medicines are given by the hospital but but some medicines we need to buy from the pharmacy.” REUTERS/Kim Kyung-Hoon