Birendranagar, April 24 -- Each day is a struggle between earning a meal and saving a life. For 38-year-old Tulasara Khadka of Botechaur in ward 9 of Gurbhakot Municipality, Surkhet, managing household expenses while arranging treatment for her cancer-stricken husband has become increasingly difficult.

With no money left for treatment, she now drives an auto-rickshaw in her locality to make ends meet.

"In my life, sorrow has outweighed happiness," Tulasara said. "Perhaps this is my fate." She works daily to arrange two meals while trying to manage treatment costs for her husband, who is battling bone marrow cancer. For her, saving his life comes first before everything else.

She has no regular income, and without daily labour, there is...