Lack of orthopaedic doctors at Baitadi district hospital costs patients dearly

The absence has deprived people from the hilly district of timely treatment, leaving many disabled.

Eleven-year-old Urmila Luhar suffered burns on the three fingers of her right hand when she was three months old. Her mother, Laxmi Luhar, says she rushed Urmila to the Baitadi District Hospital immediately. The hospital treated Urmila for her burns and advised Laxmi to take her daughter to a better-facilitated hospital outside the district to seek treatment for bone damage caused by the burns. But the family of meagre means from Dashrath Chand Municipality-11 did not have the financial resources to take Urmila elsewhere for treatment.