Rising heat, failing kidneys: Climate’s hidden toll on migrant workers

Rising heat, failing kidneys: Climate’s hidden toll on migrant workers

The beeping of old dialysis machines at the National Kidney Center in Kathmandu never stops. Nurses in dark blue scrubs rush around tending to the 55 people having their blood cleaned at any given time while cleaners squeeze by carrying stained sheets and buckets of bloody catheters. The facility, located alongside a major thoroughfare in the Nepalese capital, runs three dialysis sittings daily. That’s as many as 165 patients every day. Most vis…

Rising heat, failing kidneys: Climate’s hidden toll on migrant workers

Migrant workers return from Gulf countries with failed kidneys, victims of extreme temperatures, grueling labor, and a global system that leaves them unprotected