Nepali migrant workers face an infertility crisis

At 18, Bharati left Nepal’s Kavrepalanchok district dreaming of one thing: to send his future children to top boarding schools in the country.

Bharati and his wife, Chaulagain, wait anxiously at the infertility unit at Paropakar Maternity and Women's Hospital in Kathmandu. After working for a decade painting skyscrapers in Qatar, Bharati was diagnosed with low sperm count, a condition increasingly linked to long-term heat exposure among Nepali migrant workers in the Gulf.

By Sunita Neupane

KATHMANDU, NEPAL, May 5: At 18, Bharati left Nepal’s Kavrepalanchok district dreaming of one thing: to send his future children to top boarding schools in the country.

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