GAJURKOT, Nepal (Reuters) - Weeks after annual monsoon rains started to lash Nepal, Kanchhi Maya Sherpa sits inside a makeshift tent on a soggy football pitch, flies crawling over her swollen mouth and limbs.
Doctors say the 82-year-old had developed a fungal infection from living for weeks under the damp tarpaulin, but her family couldn't afford to send her to a hospital.
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