That's what happens in countries like Malawi, where pill bottles are in short supply. So an Indiana-based charity has collected more than 1 million vials to donate.
A health crisis grips the country, triggered by fuel blockades. Medicine is in short supply. But our writer, living in Kathmandu, needed emergency surgery.
He says the documentary, about a boy who had three fingers hacked off for their purported magic power, is farfetched. People with albinism don't agree.