accidents, suicide, murder, lack of medical treatment and medicines, diarrhea etc.
Patients are dying untimely due to unavailability of timely medical treatment. Migrant
workers involved in the foreign land also die due to various reasons. Due to the Covid
19 pandemics, Nepali people died due to lack of emergency ward, oxygen, ventilator and
medicines.
2.2.2 Right to Health
Article 35 of the Constitution of Nepal provides the right to health. The Commission has
been extensively monitoring on the issues like health services and the impact upon health
services during the Covid - 19 pandemic in collaboration and coordination with Nepal
Bar Association, Federation of Nepali Journalists and the NGO Federation including
other human rights organizations through the central, provincial and district level human
rights monitoring committees.
The monitoring shows that due to lack of regular treatment at Corona special hospitals
people often denied their right to regular treatment, some patients have even died because
they were obliged to return from the hospital gates without a medical examination,
ambulance drivers and cleaners have been forced to perform hazardous work without
necessary safety equipment and difficulty has been created to the chronically ill patients
due to unavailability of the regular treatment and medicines during lock down periods.
Due to the lockdown and the prohibition order, the daily lives of the common people had
become difficult and businesses were paused which made the daily life of the common
people pathetic. The data shows that the number of women going to the hospital for
delivery during the lockdown period has decreased.
2.2.3. Women's Rights
In line with the inclusion and principle of proportional representation of the Constitution,
the participation of women in various sectors of society including politics and
administration has increased. Laws, policies and structures have been made to control
the violence against women. However, due to the prevailing customs, discrimination and
gender-based violence in the society the economic, social, cultural and educational status
of women has not been improved qualitatively. Women have been found to be victims
due to Jhuma, Chhaupadi, dowry and tilak customs, child marriage, domestic violence
and accusations of witchcraft. Failure to bring dowry has led to whippings, evictions and
even death. Incidents such as sex selective abortion, rape, sexual abuse, and acid attack
are also on taking place.
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