Sonia’s little wooden room for dialysis
Chronic Kidney Disease has a mortality rate of 54% in Guatemala. Among the departments with more reported cases is Escuintla; here, 61% of the sugarcane cultivation area is located. On this coast of the Pacific Ocean, many communities are neighbors of large areas of crops. Farmers and their families live among sheets, plastics, environmental contamination, and high temperatures, without access to quality water and with progressive disease. One of them is Sonia, a kidney patient who must have her dialysis done in a makeshift room that is no more than a square meter.