Butwal, Feb. 16 -- The One-stop Crisis Management Centre has been in operation at the Lumbini Provincial Hospital since 2011-12. The centre's objective is to facilitate rehabilitation of victims of gender-based and domestic violence by providing them with medical treatment, legal services, security-and even temporary shelter.

But the centre is currently languishing, with the hospital management neither giving the facility the required attention nor the publicity.

Sabitri, a victim of domestic violence, visited the crisis management centre on Wednesday, seeking medical treatment and legal support. When she asked health workers at the emergency ward where the centre was, they had no clue.

"I explained to them that there should be a centr...