I've met this man.
French, ex mountaineer, ex rugby player, ex UN consultant...he WAS many thing.
Now he's an old man living in Nepal since decades in the countryside, with a Nepalese girlfriend.
I guess that at a certain point of his life he gave up his body and stopped to take care of what people think about him.
His arm was cemented in a solid block so that, to put sugar in his coffee, he had to move 3/4 of his body. After an accident he lost some parts of bones between the elbow and the hand.
He had some bolts in a foot and other in a hip.
But also he had long nails, oily hairs, yellow teeth, huge fat body and he was spitting while speaking.
Not knowing how NGO are working, he was asking for some funds to run a small project in his area. AHAH! I don't have a dime!
Anyway, he was also an engineer, and he followed the construction of a new private clinic in Kathmandu, and he told me about a new profitable business catching on in Nepal.
In the new shining expensive ultra equipped clinic there were something like 50 beds and 11 dialysis bed.
A not insignificant ratio.
"It's a new form of tourism"
"What. For people with kidney problems?"
I knew a lot of Europeans use to go to India to visit a cheap dentist or to North Africa for a plastic surgery, probably also dialysis is too expensive in some countries.
"Not dialysis, no...but kidney are"
"Oh, no"
"Oh yes! At the end of the works, they offer to my crew, all poor skilled workers, a free kidney visit"
But he had no idea how much a kidney can cost. To the clinic to buy and to the 'tourist' to install.
French, ex mountaineer, ex rugby player, ex UN consultant...he WAS many thing.
Now he's an old man living in Nepal since decades in the countryside, with a Nepalese girlfriend.
I guess that at a certain point of his life he gave up his body and stopped to take care of what people think about him.
His arm was cemented in a solid block so that, to put sugar in his coffee, he had to move 3/4 of his body. After an accident he lost some parts of bones between the elbow and the hand.
He had some bolts in a foot and other in a hip.
But also he had long nails, oily hairs, yellow teeth, huge fat body and he was spitting while speaking.
Not knowing how NGO are working, he was asking for some funds to run a small project in his area. AHAH! I don't have a dime!
Anyway, he was also an engineer, and he followed the construction of a new private clinic in Kathmandu, and he told me about a new profitable business catching on in Nepal.
In the new shining expensive ultra equipped clinic there were something like 50 beds and 11 dialysis bed.
A not insignificant ratio.
"It's a new form of tourism"
"What. For people with kidney problems?"
I knew a lot of Europeans use to go to India to visit a cheap dentist or to North Africa for a plastic surgery, probably also dialysis is too expensive in some countries.
"Not dialysis, no...but kidney are"
"Oh, no"
"Oh yes! At the end of the works, they offer to my crew, all poor skilled workers, a free kidney visit"
But he had no idea how much a kidney can cost. To the clinic to buy and to the 'tourist' to install.
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