Burns Violence Survivors - Nepal

No one knows precisely how many women like Dhapali there are in Nepal and whether the numbers are going up or down — around the world, information about bride burning is hard to come by. Women who die or don’t seek medical care are unaccounted for. Survivors often don’t admit what happened. Plus, travel to rural areas to gather data is challenging, and there’s no funding for studies.

The few studies of intentional burns in Nepal give, at best, a partial picture of bride burning. One study of patients admitted to one burn unit in Kathmandu between 2002 and 2013 found that 329 people — mostly women — came in with “intentional” burns. The majority of the women claimed to have set themselves on fire. But the study’s authors note that many bride-burning victims don’t admit it. Burn surgeons in two cities in Nepal told PRI they see it quite a bit, though not as often in Nepal as in neighboring India. They say their patients are either ashamed or afraid of retribution from their husbands’ families and say it was an accident or even a suicide attempt.

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