Syria struggles with shortage of drugs for young cancer patients

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In the cancer ward at Damascus Children's Hospital, doctors are struggling with a critical shortage of specialist drugs to treat their young patients - and it's not just due to the general chaos of the Syrian civil war, reports Reuters.

Children with cancer sit at the hospital, March 16, 2017.
Omar Sanadiki/Reuters

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