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Statement of Marie Sardie, U. N. H. C. R. Nutritionist






 

“No one can say what their health is like subclinically, ” she said, “but clinically it’s not too bad. The service they get is much better than the local, and it’s far, far better than what they get in Afghanistan. They’ve all got food and schooling and shelter and water supplies — some facilities, anyway — and the medical coverage is at least once a week. Now in Afghanistan they’d be lucky if they saw an orthodox doctor once in their lifetime … And this causes a lot of friction between the refugees and the locals. There’s no way the U.N.H.C.R. budget would be healthy enough to integrate the local facilities with our own program. But in some cases we’ve been trying to make the medical dispensaries available to the locals and the refugees. But the refugees don’t usually like that; and so many times the dispensary tends to be in the center of the camp.”

 

THINGS THAT PEOPLE WOULDN’T SAY ON TAPE [1]

 

Some Pakistanis didn’t actually like the refugees so much. Sometimes they wouldn’t even give them water.

 

STATEMENT OF MARIE SARDIE (continued)

 

The Young Man edged the tape recorder closer. — “Do you think that equity would dictate that these extras be cut back to the level of the local population? ” he asked. He considered himself very precise.

“In the immediate future, no, ” she replied, “in the long-term future, maybe. Look what’s happened with the Tibetan refugees. They get much less than the local population, because who’s interested in Tibetan refugees? But at the moment the donor countries are still extremely generous toward the Afghan refugees. But who knows what it’s going to be like in five years, ten years? And there are pockets of malnutrition throughout the frontier, but that’s not because they’re refugees; they have this cultural habit that you don’t feed solid foods to the infants until they’re around at least two years of age, b so it’s survival of the fittest. The strong ones live, and the weak ones”—she shrugged—“just die away.” —The Young Man nodded and gulped his tea. The fan in the office felt very, very nice. — “In some areas we’re trying to institute solid feedings to infants six months of age and older; it’s very difficult, ” Marie Sardie said. “And the women, some of them, tend to be malnourished because of the repeated pregnancies; and also, as you know, the females in this part of the world have got absolutely no value at all. If the women keep producing female children, the husband doesn’t really care if the children die, or if the wife dies; you can always get another wife who hopefully will give you male children.”

 






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