The Himalayan Hills AR wretched with extremes stunning Beauty and intense poverty a struggle that’s LED some to take drastic risks Haw in cavar district has a unique and troubled history one it’s trying to forget this is known as kidney Valley because someone from almost every household has sold a kidney
Brokers have been visiting the area for years persuading people to part with an organ despite the fact it’s illegal suan is 31 he was so broken financially and emotionally he went to India to sell his kidney for just under £3,000 I had really bad debt and was
Considering suicide I had no option I talked with a friend and he took me to India what was the physical impact of going through that process I felt weak and I lost Consciousness when I woke up it was really hurting now I can’t work and I
Try to tell anyone I can not to sell their kidney a short drive away we meet Cana and RAM who also regret their decision and feel there’s a stigma around what was done to their bodies led by an organ trafficking Network how did did the whole process
Work the agents made fake documents in catmandu including Indian ID cards my kidney was given to a woman pretending to be my sister I think the doctor in India knew I’d sold it do you think there are a lot of people in this area who have sold a kidney like you
It’s impossible to count how many have everywhere this Village that Village so many people have sold their kidneys locals say they were manipulated by traffic and driven by desperation but they learned their lesson years ago jiri tells me before many people sold kidneys but now because of Education they
Don’t Salon says in one family three or four sold them but not lately but poverty has since led to yet another unexpected kidney related crisis increasing numbers of nepalis have chosen to work overseas and it’s come with its own Jeopardy many are now facing this kidney transplant surgery
And those are the fortunate ones the results some scientists suggest of heat exposure and severe dehydration the victims young wants healthy men many Nepali men leave the country to escape poverty but they are facing extreme heat made worse by climate change and it’s taken many of them here their kidneys
Crippled hundreds of thousands of people every year go to the Gulf States but face soaring temperatures and hostile labor conditions their suffering is a cautionary tale for the rest of the world jet spent 3 years working in Saudi Arabia now at just 29 he spends 12 hours
A week on dialysis what kind of conditions did you work in I had to work in extreme heat up to 50° we didn’t have time to have lunch go to the toilet or drink water what are the symptoms you’ve experienced I was overheating suddenly I felt my feet swelling and I couldn’t
Walk then I was told my kidney had failed everyone here is desperate for a donor but they have to be a relative ishwar is 34 and still searching for his Lifeline he says he worked 16-hour days for 7 years in Dubai I was working long hours in high temperatures without sleep
My body started to swell up like I’d been beaten Dr pukar shrer used to only perform transplants on the elderly but the prominent surgeon suddenly started spotting young people with scarred and shrunken kidneys how grave is the situation it’s very grave because about one3 of our transplan is are these lib migraine
Workers who have come from abroad uh this has caused a huge burden to our health resources and these are otherwise healthy young men yes yeah they go very healthy young men who are fit to work abroad and when when they return you know they come come with the completely failed
Kidneys they’re forced to work in some of the world’s hottest places with little agency and conditions they can’t control it is a deadly mix that could easily get far worse Cordelia Lynch Sky News Catman do neple
