Spain Rescue Seen Worse Than Cure as Hospitals Make Cuts
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For some cancer patients, Spain’s debt crisis means living on borrowed medicine.
Virgen de la Luz hospital in the rural province of Cuenca turned away two women with lung and breast cancer in May after Roche Holding AG stopped supplying tumor fighter Herceptin, according to documents obtained by Bloomberg News. The women got the drug after a 24-hour wait thanks to a hastily-brokered deal to borrow it from another clinic.