If the situation were normal, she would have arrived at the hospital on the same date. However, she arrived at the hospital to seek shelter after her family was evacuated.
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Paropkar Maternity and Gynecology Hospital Cabin No. 10. On Thursday afternoon, three nurses enter together. They measure the pressure and fever of a 9-month pregnant woman and ask, ‘How are you feeling now?’ The woman nods, ‘It’s fine now.’ The doctor has given her a date to give birth in the first week of Jestha. She has been under special observation of the doctor since last Tuesday. If the situation were normal, she would have reached the hospital on the same date. But after her family was evacuated, she came to the hospital to seek shelter.
She was displaced from the slums in Thapathali and has now reached the hospital via Rangshala and Kirtipur Holding Center. She is currently receiving treatment in the cabin with her mother-in-law. The hospital has given her two meals a day. Her worries about where to stay and what to eat have disappeared for the time being. She said, 'I was very scared of where to go, what to do, how to give birth to a child when my house was collapsing. Now I am in the hospital. I am not afraid anymore.' She has been provided with free food, accommodation and treatment.
She has her own compulsion behind taking shelter in the hospital. Last Saturday, a dozer started running in the Thapathali slum since morning. Everyone was afraid of the sound of the dozer and the destruction of the house. In the meantime, the 22-year-old, who was 8 months pregnant, started having stomach pains. She was about to become a mother for the first time and said that her stomach hurt. While the family was busy moving things. There was no one to take care of her at that time. Holding her aching stomach, she got into a municipal vehicle and reached the stadium. After reaching the stadium, after screening the slum dwellers, her family was confirmed to be genuine slum dwellers. They went to the holding center in Kirtipur to take shelter.
Kathmandu Metropolitan City Deputy Mayor Sunita Dangol facilitated her to be placed in a maternity home after visiting her. She is currently staying at the maternity home with her mother-in-law. She will stay in the hospital free of charge until she gives birth.
Her family had been living in the slums in Thapathali for 20 years. She got married only two years ago. Dhading, who has a permanent home, got married after meeting through social media. About the marriage, she said, 'We met through Facebook, talked for a year and a half and got married. We got married by running away.'
Her mother-in-law had come to Kathmandu from Udayapur with 3 children 20 years ago. After her husband remarried, she came to Kathmandu with the help of relatives with the child. She reached the slums in search of a place to live. She raised, taught, and counted three children while working as a wage laborer. Two of her children dropped out of school, but her youngest daughter has completed her studies up to Plus Two.
She came to Udayapur after getting married. Her husband's family had no land. After marriage, she went to live with her husband in a squatter settlement in Jhapa. Recalling her stay in a squatter settlement, she said, "My husband had nothing, and we lived in a squatter settlement in Jhapa too. We came to Thapathali on the advice of our family."
Her stay in the squatter settlement was not easy either. The family living in a 4-room house was always in fear due to the earnings of their children. Talking about the fear of the squatter settlement, she said, "They got a bad reputation for being squatters. I am a real squatter, right! Others put gold, we were disgraced.' She has experienced many hardships in that settlement. Sometimes she was threatened with being demolished by a bulldozer, and sometimes she was worried that a flood would wash it away.
Her son, 2 daughters, and grandson, who are staying with her daughter-in-law in the hospital, are in the holding center. She said she is confident that the government will take them to a better place.
