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What I Saw What I Felt: Somewhere Some Place

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Rank, a VDC of Rolpa, one of  the remotest  areas of a remote District- this is second place of our eighth round medical mobile camp. We consulted 990 patients in three days. Well, I would like to describe different kinds of patient I came across with. There was a woman who has lost her pregnancy four times in the past. It was her fifth pregnancy. It was a month of Mangsir 2066. She was 21 year old. She lost four pregnancies in this early age I was surprised! While examining her, we found no detectable fetal heart sound. We asked her to go to higher centers in sub-regional hospital, Ghorahi or Nepalgunj medical college, teaching hospital, Kohalpur for ultrasound. Ear Check Up Now in Baishakh, 2067, when we saw her, she mentioned that she lost her 5th newborn baby too. On further inquiry, she had gone to some quack's clinic where he mentioned the condition of fetus was well. I was angry but I felt sorry for her at the same time. If she were well educated and she could have