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.

The Glass Wall: Isolated by Cancer (video)

A Dutch teenager records video diaries when she is locked behind a hospital's glass wall for a bone marrow transplant.

A Dutch teenager records her hopes and fears when she is isolated from family and friends in hospital for life-saving treatment.

Lydia suffers from a rare blood cancer, and her doctors decide to make the ultimate attempt to cure her with a risky bone marrow transplant.

This means Lydia has to spend more than a month locked behind a glass wall, alone.

"It is five to eleven at night and the wall has just been closed. I've hugged my dad one last time and now I'm locked in my two-by-four-metre room," she says.