{"id":56242,"date":"2023-06-26T14:00:57","date_gmt":"2023-06-26T05:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2023\/jun\/26\/going-abroad-cost-me-my-health-nepals-migrant-workers-coming-home-with-chronic-kidney-disease"},"modified":"2023-06-26T14:00:57","modified_gmt":"2023-06-26T05:00:57","slug":"going-abroad-cost-me-my-health-nepals-migrant-workers-coming-home-with-chronic-kidney-disease","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=56242","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Going abroad cost me my health\u2019: Nepal\u2019s migrant workers coming home with chronic kidney disease"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Men under 40 are coming home in need of dialysis, after working in intense heat with limited access to drinking water<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Photographs by Pete Pattisson<\/p>\n<p>Three times each week, for four hours at a stretch, Sujan Thami is hooked up to a jumble of tubes in a hospital ward in Kathmandu, while his blood is drawn out to be cleaned. Thami has chronic kidney disease and the treatment now dictates his life.<\/p>\n<p>It is not what he envisaged when he set out to work overseas, a journey that took him first to Malaysia and then Qatar. \u201cI had to go abroad to make a living, but it\u2019s cost me my health,\u201d says Thami, 39. \u201cIt\u2019s not the life I hoped for.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2023\/jun\/26\/going-abroad-cost-me-my-health-nepals-migrant-workers-coming-home-with-chronic-kidney-disease\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Men under 40 are coming home in need of dialysis, after working in intense heat with limited access to drinking water\u2022 Photographs by Pete PattissonThree times each week, for four hours at a stretch, Sujan Thami is hooked up to a jumble of tubes in a h&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3486,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[847,59,566,212,491,241,524,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-employment","category-global-development","category-global-health","category-middle-east-and-north-africa","category-migration","category-nepal","category-qatar","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3486"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56242"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56243,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56242\/revisions\/56243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}