The cancer drug was meant to save children's lives. Instead, they're dying
Acute lymphoblastic leukaemia is the most common kind of childhood cancer but the drugs containing asparaginase are of poor quality, leaving 70 000 children at risk
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Acute lymphoblastic leukaemia is the most common kind of childhood cancer but the drugs containing asparaginase are of poor quality, leaving 70 000 children at risk
Substandard asparaginase, a childhood leukemia drug, has been shipped to more than 90 countries, overwhelmingly from companies in India.
Sitting at his desk overlooking a pharmaceutical factory floor on the outskirts of the Congolese capital Kinshasa, Joss Ilunga Dijimba, 52, cracked a jovial smile.
Joss Ilunga Dijimba, 52, sat at his desk overlooking a pharmaceutical factory on the outskirts of the Congolese capital Kinshasa and smiled brightly.