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24-year-old Musahar Samusdaiki Rangitadevi of Sarlahi Chandranagar rural municipality, who went for stomach surgery, is staying at the National Medical College Hospital in Birganj because she could not pay the treatment expenses. Husband Vijay has gone home to meet the expenses for a week. He has not come back.
About 44 thousand rupees are owed to the hospital and 1 lakh 14 thousand 183 rupees to the drug store Alliance Pharma outside the hospital . Currently, Rangita is waiting for her husband in bed number 15 of the hospital's surgery ward. "He went a week ago to settle the expenses," Rangita said, "When you call, he says that the expenses have not been settled."
Rangita's husband Vijay is a daily wage labourer. She said that the amount of more than 1 lakh 50 thousand rupees is beyond their capacity. Earlier, she said, about 1 lakh rupees had been spent in hospital and medicine. "One and a half lakh rupees is beyond imagination for poor people like us," she said.
On March 11, Rangita was admitted to the hospital due to stomach problems. The doctor had operated on his abdomen on 13th March . Durga Chapagain, the nurse in charge of the surgical ward, said that an 'exploratory laparotomy' was done on Rangita's stomach. This surgery is done by opening the stomach after a problem with the intestines. After the surgery, the faeces formed in his stomach are collected in a plastic bag outside the stomach by performing an ileostomy. After about 5/6 months, another surgery will be done to keep the intestines inside the stomach.
Rangita could be discharged and sent home, but Chapagai said that she could not be discharged because her hospital arrears were about 44 thousand rupees.
Rangita's elder sister Sunayan Devi, who lives in Kuruwa, said that she is also waiting for her sister-in-law. He said, "I will come soon, I have to stay in Kurua," she said, "It has been 7 days since I left, and he does not answer when I call. I am also scared."
President Rajkumar Mahato of Chandranagar Rural Municipality said that Rangita's family is landless and extremely poor. He said that they have collected donations from the village houses and donated about 1 lakh rupees. He said that it would be a great relief for this family if the hospital waives the treatment expenses because they are very poor.
