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Are no cancer drugs to buy her a little extra time. it's her mother, though, who's getting treatment today. she fainted from lack of food when she arrived at the hospital. now she's recovering on a drip of just saline solution. this handout is just in time. in every room here, small donations are welcome. staff here tell us that only 3 of 18 operating theaters are working, that this is the only pediatric surgical unit left in the capital and that 500 children are on its waiting list. one doctor quickly writes a shopping list of desperately needed supplies. she can't show her face for fear of b...

>> precisely because the government refuses to take it. it will not accept that it needs help. that means, the government add nat admits that it's failed. >> reporter: she has a tumor in her neck and she is terminally ill and there nor cancer drugs to buy her a little extra time. it's her mother, though, that's getting treatment today. she fainted from lack of food when she arrived at the hospital. now she's recovering on a drip. it's just saline solution, so this handout is just in time. in every room here small donations are welcome. staff here tell us that only three of 18 operating theater...

Tattoo. >> this, i would say is a bristol 5. >> lab technician demonstrates how they make the treatment. pop that's too hard or soft won't work. >> it's very de strip tiv like a dry sausage. soft logs. >> did you make this? >> no. it's actually an established medical chart. >> a saline solution is added and sloshed around to filter out fiber. what's left behind is a liquid teaming with healthy bacteria. >> it's either administered bottom up through a colon nos scop which or top down with a tube. >> yes that travels from your nose down to the intestines. >> so the healthy microbes from eric's p...

>> she's moving inside of me and they say, no, this is fatal. >> but a doctor was willing to try an experimental treatment. the doctor introduced a saline solution to try to create enough fluid for the lungs to develop and then they waited to see if it would work. abigail was born july 15th. >> she looked at us and she cried, which means her lungs were functioning. >> doctors in california treating abigail say she now has excellent lung function. she'll be on dialysis until she can get a kidney transplant next year. >> the kidney transplant success rate now is so good that we would predict a f...

How about $44? remember, it's for this, this thing. nope. not $44. a 1-liter bag of saline solution could run you about $91. if you need six bags like a recent patient at a new york hospital, that's $546. those details come from a shocking article in "the new york times" today, at white plains hospital, a patient with private insurance from aetna was charged $91 for one unit of hospira iv that cost the hospital, wait for it, 86 cents. a hospital spokeswoman defended the markup as consistent be with industry standards. she said tud reflected not only the cost of solution but a variety of relate...