Thapathali Maternity Hospital, Kathmandu

It had been 2 hours that I had reached there. Every other patient had their visitors, nurturing, feeding and making the patients feel easy in every possible ways. Then I noticed one patient with her 23 days’ old baby on her side and she had no visitor, her husband, or mother, or her in laws were nowhere to be seen. Then, one of the visitors of another patient reached her and asked about her relatives. And it was only then that we knew that she’d been there for 24 days already and had no visitors ever since. Every other bed had new patients in every 1-3 days but that one bed hadn’t been replaced by another patient for 24 days. The reason wasn’t any severe illness of the mother or the child but her husband had fled away the very next day after he brought her to the hospital as the labor pain started, and shifted the room to some other place. They had been married for just a year and their parents hadn’t accepted their inter-caste marriage. There, in the hospital, she had been living on some money she had for the emergency expenses and the two times’ meal provided by the hospital, and now the money was all spent. Everyone felt sorry for her and was angry at her husband. The whole scenario changed, then. People bought soups and meals for her. Some visitors gave some money. And then there was one nurse trying to case FIR against her husband and helping her with management of lawyers to ensure that she would be compensated and be provided with justice. That was certainly a matter of relief and so humane.
This is only one case I got to encounter with and the other staffs said there comes as many cases as such where husband flees away or baby daughters are left in trashes or some corners of the hospital. The revolts for inter-caste marriage, against abandoning girl child, single parent woman, and so on, have still been limited only to the text books and social media and some hearts or minds, but never reached the places and minds to actually where it had to be reached.
-Thapathali Maternity Hospital, Kathmandu

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