Nepali lady dies in menstruation hut
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KHATMANDU: An 18-year-old lady has died in Nepal after she was bitten by a lizard while outcast to a strew since she was menstruating, partial of a long-banned ancient Hindu practice, officials pronounced Saturday.
Many communities in Nepal perspective menstruating women as polluted and in some remote areas they are forced to nap in a hovel divided from a home during their periods, a use famous as chhaupadi.
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Tulasi Shahi was bitten twice by a vicious lizard and died on Friday morning in western Dailekh district, internal mayor Surya Bahadur Shahi told AFP.
“She survived for 7 hours after a lizard punch though died since medical diagnosis was delayed,” pronounced Shahi.
According to internal media, her family took her to a encampment shaman, or magician doctor, for diagnosis instead of holding her to a hospital. Local military reliable that a lady had died though were incompetent to yield serve sum on a cause.
Chhaupadi is related to Hinduism and considers women chaste when they menstruate, as good as after child birth.
They are outcast from a home — barred from touching food, eremite icons, cattle and group — and forced to nap in simple huts famous as chhau goth.
Two women died in late 2016 in apart incidents while following a protocol — one of fume transformation after she illuminated a glow for warmth, while a other genocide was unexplained.
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Rights activists contend many other deaths expected go unreported.
Chhaupadi was criminialized a decade ago though is still followed in tools of Nepal, quite in remote western districts.
Proposed legislation that would criminalise a use and make it an imprisonable corruption to force women to follow a protocol is now tentative in parliament.
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