People forced to buy drug used to treat severe Covid-19 patients in black market

Patients paying up to 17 times the government approved price for Tocilizumab, a drug that is in short supply.

On Monday last week, when the health condition of a 47-year-old man infected with Covid-19 started deteriorating fast, doctors at HAMS Hospital asked his relatives to find Tocilizumab, an arthritis drug which is said to reduce the risk of death in severe coronavirus infected patients.