Alipurduar, April 22: Gita Oraon has found shelter in a hospital after being thrown out of her house and forced to live under a tree for over two weeks almost without food.

Doctors at Madarihat Block Hospital termed the 38-year-old woman’s condition “serious”.

“Fluid has collected in her legs as well as the liver,” Dr Amit Ghosh said. “Yesterday, we removed some fluid from her stomach, which reduced her breathing problems, but we cannot start the actual treatment because the hospital lacks adequate infrastructure.”

Ghosh added that they needed to do a chest X-ray, an ultrasonography of the liver and get the extracted fluid tested. “We have told the people who brought her here that she has to be shifted to Birpara State General Hospital,” the doctor said.

The woman was taken to the hospital in Madarihat by Somnath Karji, the gram panchayat member of Khayerbari. Karji said he would get her shifted to Birpara, 13km from Madarihat.

“I have spoken to the doctors. Money will not be a problem,” the gram panchayat member said.

Gita had been turned out of the house by her second husband, Saniram Oraon, a few weeks ago. Her first husband, Surait Oraon, and father, Paresh Oraon, both refused to take her in.

Neighbours boycotted her because she had married a second time while her husband was alive.

With no place to go to, Gita started living under a tree on the ground of Gobin Memorial Madhyamik Shiksha Kendra, surviving on food given to her by some women of the locality.