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Health camp for women unfolds tales of misery
DADELDHURA, JAN 01 - 16-year-old Sunita of Shirsha in Jogbudha has become the victim of domestic violence after she failed to give birth to a baby boy. In her second pregnancy she gave birth to twins, who are now seven months old.
Bishnadevi of Jafati in Jogbudha was evicted out of her home after she refused to be pregnant for the third time. Similar is the plight of 35-year-old Janaki Dhami, who has been forced to carry a foetus for the seventh time in the hope of giving birth to a baby boy. In Hindu culture a baby boy is revered and welcomed with jubilation as he is considered the savour of the family who helps to further the dynasty.
At the health camp organised in Rangoon of Dadeldhura, 653 of the 700 women who had come to this camp had sorrowful tales of domestic violence to tell the health workers at the camp. In this camp organised by Rural Women Development and Unity Centre (RWDUC), women ranging from 12 to 70 years of age
divulged their tales of having to embrace unsafe pregnancy and motherhood against
their will.
According to information provided by members of RWDUC and director of the Maternity home, Indira Bhatta, that due to domestic violence around 80 percent of women are afflicted with ovary disease followed by death in most cases.
Nabajit Karmacharya, head of RWDUC said that the condition of the women at this camp related with the safe motherhood apparently presented a gloomy picture of domestic violence on women.
In this camp, the first of its kind in this district, organised with the assistance of Nepal Research Council and Dadeldhura Red Cross, women from various villages of the bordering districts of Kailali and Kanchanpur had also come to get their health checked.
According to information provided by the head of RWDUC Karmacharya, of the women who visited this camp, the condition of more than 100 was serious.
It is learnt that most of the women had come to this camp without informing their members at home, ridden with the fear of being ridiculed by their in-laws.
The report of the RWDUC said that women of this region were victimised by domestic violence that ranged from activities such as having to give birth to a son after numerous pregnancies, preventing women from going to hospital, and barring women from undergoing Family Planning.
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