Pharmacy student Nicholas Keher from northwest England was pushed to auction his World Cup semi-final tickets after he was diagnosed with bowel cancer. He is trying to raise £50,000 to pay for private treatment and has set up a website to auction his tickets.
The 23-year old was told that a drug called Avastin which costs £50,000 was his ticket to survival and that it is not free on the National Health Service, UK. The drug is under examination by the National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE). Keher said that he has no time to wait for the NICE decision.
Keher’s website says people to bid at £10 a time. The lowest unique bid will win the tickets for the semi-final in Munich on 5 July.
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