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He came from a poor village three days journey and a long walk down from the mountains. Shobharam Chaudhary, 26 years, a subsistence hill farmer, brought his wife and a 2 year old son with him. Two weeks earlier he had got a puncture wound in his right forearm while working in the rice field. A local “medical hall” dressed the arm in a big tight bandage. Increasing unbearable pain in and from the arm forced him to go to a nearby hospital and then he came to us, in Tansen Mission Hospital. |
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Sanjeet BK is a 10 month old boy from Chidipani, a small village on the outskirts of Tansen. He came to the Community Health Department’s (CHD) Mother and Child Health Center (MCHC) with his grandmother who is trying to care for him as best she can. She works as a day labourer in the fields of local landowners. She has a sad story to tell. |
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We first met Sarita, a 26 yr old mother of three, when she had already faced many troubles. She comes from a war-torn district in Western Nepal where many of the health posts have been destroyed, making access to health care very difficult. She came with six months of fever, weight loss and abdominal pain. |
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