Chitwan, Dec. 9 -- Bishnumati Sunar, 57, of Madi Municipality Ward No. 7 has been suffering from a bone-related disease that makes movement difficult for her, especially when she has to bend over. It's been more than a couple of years since she's been riddled with pain in her body and a weak hip, she says. But she does not know what the disease is and neither has she sought treatment. She binds her hip with a belt which eases her pain to a certain extent.

"The pain didn't really feel like a big deal to me," she said.

Sunar, a mother of three, learned only on Wednesday, at a free health camp in Diwanagar, that her uterus had prolapsed. She, however, had gone to the camp to check her eyes, not her uterus. When the camp volunteers suggeste...