In one incident, a parent smuggled his child from hospital on the night after an operation to remove a cancer tumor, because he couldn't pay the child's medical fees.
榮民總醫院就曾發生一位癌症病童的家長，在孩子首次開刀切除癌細胞後，因付不出醫藥費，不得已連夜偷偷帶孩子出院。