-Chronic kidney disease killed at least 1,700 Guanacastecans in 23 years.
-Costa Rica doesn’t recognize the illness as a labor-related risk despite scientific consensus that links it with intensive farm chores under the sun.
“The process for a country to declare that a disease has a work origin is quite complicated,” says the researcher at the National University.
Kidney dialysis is only done in hospitals in the central valley where there are specialists in nephrology. In Liberia, there aren’t any...
In Costa Rica, there are 280 people waiting for a kidney from a cadaver and Guanacaste is one of the provinces that has the fewest...
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