Bleaker outlook for Russian palliative-care patients
Economic crunch puts treatment and pain drugs out of reach for many patients, who have also become collateral damage in government's intensifying war against drug trafficking
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Nakhabino, Russia
FOR the five years that doctors have battled the cancerous tumour pressing on her son's spine, Elena Knyazeva has faced an ever-harder struggle to help him weather the pain.
Diagnosed with virulent neuroblastoma at four months, Artyom - now five years old - has had multiple surgeries and rounds of chemotherapy. As a Russian citizen whose family has state-mandated health insurance, he is, in theory, entitled to all the benefits of the Russian public healthcare system.
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