Chitwan, June 1: Surgeons at the Bharatpur Hospital here have successfully removed the abdominal tumors by operating on two women. The tumors weighed ten and five kilograms respectively.

All the medical expenses required in removing the tumor from the body of 35-year-old Indra Laxmi Poudyal, a resident of Devghat Dham, Bharatpur Municipality, was borne by the hospital from the hospital development fund. A widow and without a house, Mrs Poudel knew she had a tumor in her abdomen but she could not afford to have it removed because of her poor economic condition. She sells firewood to eke out her living.

Gynecologists Keshab Bhurtel and Saroja Pandey performed the operation on her.

Similarly, a five-kilogram tumour was also removed from the abdomen of Mrs Maya Gurung, wife of a local Rikshaw-Puller.

The hospital borne all the expenses required in performing the operation on Mrs Gurung, it is learnt.

Meanwhile, in Humla, Nepal Red Cross Society Humla district chapter and the foundation Eye Care Pokhara jointly organised separate eye treatment camps in Sarkeghat and Simikot of the district in which a total of 566 eye patients were provided free check-up services.

Out of the 566 eye patients who visited the camps, 114 were found to be suffering from cataract defect while 12 needed general eye operation to correct their eye defects, Dr Margeret Hopedat said.

Nepal Red Cross Society district president Nara Bahadur Rokaya gave away certificates to volunteers and others assisting in conducting the eye camps.