Karna Singh BK, 61, and his wife Maisari, 55, from Jang VDC-9 in the eastern part of the impoverished district are languishing the sickbed for years in a row--without medical support, according to the family source. [break]
Karna Singh remains paralyzed under his waist following a spinal injury after he fell off a tree while he was collecting fodder for his livestock. His wife also became bed ridden in the same year, owing to her chronic asthma.
In a cruel twist of irony, the members of the family, which was struggling to eke out a living, had to spend thousand of rupees, to save Karna after the accident.
"We rushed him to Kathmandu immediately after he fell off the tree," says Shushila, Karna Singh´s daughter-in-law. "But we had to return after we could not afford the cost of treatment in the capital. We spent almost 200,000 rupees at that time."
Back home, Karna Singh´s condition started to deteriorate. After losing the control of the bowl movement and urination, he is, now, finding it harder by the day to speak and digest food.
"I haven´t seen the sun for the last six years," says Karna Singh , who has been lying beside the fireplace.
More than their ailment, what torments the couple is that feeling of being a burden to their near and dear ones, who are already struggling to eke out their living.
"Neither could we recuperate nor could we die. Our children are suffering due to our condition," laments Maisari.
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