Nepal

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  Taboos About Death Impede Nepal’s Response to Organ Transplant Crisis

  Nine of 10 people needing transplants never find a donor. Updated laws increase the donor pool by allowing transplants from brain-dead patients. But religious beliefs about reincarnation make such donations rare.

  By Sunita Neupane
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  Nepali Migrant Workers Risk Their Lives in Europe

  By Yam Kumari Kandel

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  Why Working Abroad Has Sparked a Kidney-Failure Crisis in Nepal

  One-third of the dialysis patients at the country’s National Kidney Center came for treatment after working abroad, often at jobs with grueling hours and few water or bathroom breaks in stifling heat.

  By Sunita Neupane