Nepal cancer patients fight for survival as chemotherapy drugs are nowhere to be found

Most of the contact numbers of suppliers, made public by the Department of Drug Administration, go unanswered, relatives complain.

Janak Khatiwada, a resident of Galchhi Rural Municipality-3, in Dhading reached various places of Bhaktapur, Lalitpur, and Kathmandu on Tuesday seeking a single dose of cisplatin, a platinum-based chemotherapy drug needed for the treatment of his wife struggling with liver cancer.