When Worlds Collide #29: Science and Politics of Kidney Disease in Sri Lanka

Reblogged from When Worlds Collide, by Nalaka Gunawardene:

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Text of my ‘When Worlds Collide’ column published in Ceylon Today Sunday newspaper on 19 August 2012

Much of Sri Lanka’s Dry Zone is currently grappling with a drought caused by the delayed Monsoon. This is a double whammy for residents in several districts who have been engulfed by another ‘slow emergency’ for nearly two decades: mass scale kidney failure affecting large numbers.

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