Tuesday, November 26, 2019

China: Smuggling For Survival



101 East explores desperate measures Chinese citizens are taking to buy life-saving cancer drugs.


Wang JiJang scans the airport nervously as he prepares to board a flight from the Indian capital, New Delhi, to Beijing.
"To be honest, I'm really worried about going through customs this time," he says.
Hidden in his bag are drugs that could send him to prison for years, but Wang is not your typical drug smuggler.
He is carrying cancer medication for a friend's sick mother, one of a growing number of Chinese taking extreme risks to obtain drugs deemed illegal in their country.
Driven to desperation by the high cost of many pharmaceuticals in China, some travel to India to buy generic versions.

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