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Making Health Care Accessible

Making Health Care Accessible

by The Daily Eye Team November 13 2015, 3:11 pm Estimated Reading Time: 0 mins, 42 secs

Aneema Begum, 61, had the last of her three children 38 years ago. The first two didn’t survive more than a year, and it is after the birth of her last, and only surviving son, that Aneema was left with a prolapsed uterus — a condition wherein muscle weakness causes the uterus to sag or entirely come out of the body. In Roshanpura village of the Raisen district where she lives, there are few medical professionals who can diagnose the condition, let alone operate upon it. “For nearly 40 years it has protruding out of my body. I told my husband and son to take me to the doctor several times,” says Aneema. “The one time they took me to Bhopal two years ago, the doctor wasn’t available.”

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HUMRA QURAISHI


Humra Quraishi is a writer, columnist and journalist. She has authored Kashmir: The Unending tragedy, Reports From the Frontlines, Kashmir: The Untold Story, Views: Yours and Mine, Bad Time Tales, More Bad Time Tales, Divine Legacy: Dagars & Dhrupad and Meer. She has co- authored The Good The Bad and The Ridiculous: Profiles, Absolute Khushwant and a series of writings with the late Khushwant Singh. Her take on what's it like to be a singleton in today's turbulent times, is part of the Penguin published anthology, Chasing the Good Life: On Being Single. And, one of her essays, The State Can't Snatch Away our Children is part of the Zubaan published anthology, Of Mothers And Others. Her essay in the volume on the 1984 Sikh riots, 1984: In Memory and Imagination is titled, Why not a Collective Cry for Justice!  


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