Jack Preger's Book

As a newly-graduated doctor aged 42, he answered an appeal in Bangladesh where he worked tirelessly amongst massive human suffering in refugee camps, and set up various clinics and medical centres for the poor. He uncovered a heinous trafficking of young children in 1977 that implicated several highly placed officials. His subsequent vociferous campaign against it, and attempt to trace a large number of missing children led to his deportation in 1979. His medical facilities were requisitioned, and his patients thrown out on the street. Some died as a result. His actions however finally led to a tightening of the regulations governing child adoptions, and to the arrest of some of the perpetrators. On behalf of some of the heartbroken parents, he continued trying to trace the whereabouts of some of the children who disappeared during this time, but in most cases was unsuccessful. Their fate is still not known.