Healthcare security

Despair often drives people to do desperate things. The case of a 19-year-old villager who committed a crime just in order to go to jail proves it yet again.

A fatal type of anemia could take this boy's life soon unless he gets timely medical treatment. Yet, the prohibitively expensive medical bill that his family could not afford reduced him to sheer despair.

To him, putting himself behind bars and getting free medical treatment in jail appeared to be the only option. He was sentenced to seven years of imprisonment for the first robbery he had committed, but only to be made to serve his sentence outside prison. So he did it the second time months later and was sentenced to 18 years in jail.