India, Aug. 6 -- In April, Ambadas Hundekar, 31, was working his shift at a wine store in Indapur, Chhatrapati Sambhaji Nagar, when he felt a shooting pain in his leg. A panicked Ambadas went to the district hospital near his home, where he was administered Factor VIII for three days. Doctors said his knee was dislocated due to bleeding in the joint. Diagnosed with haemophilic arthropathy, a degenerative condition, Ambadas is administered AHFs regularly at his local district hospital. This time, he ended up at KEM Hospital in Mumbai, for urgent surgery. The doctors needed Factor VIII vials to stop bleeding during the surgical procedure, but the hospital didn't have any. After over a month of scrambling for the medication, with the hospital writing to district hospitals for the drugs, Ambadas's brother was sent to the district hospital in Chhatrapati Sambhaji Nagar and then to Latur, where he finally procured the medication. "We spent two months in fear. I would have had to spend Rs.20 lakh if I had to buy the drugs, and I don't have that kind of money. The pain was blinding and I had almost given up," said Ambadas, whose surgery was performed at KEM on July 15....