It was about two years ago when Rita Sarkar began to feel a sharp ache in her abdomen. Sarkar, of West Bengal, told her husband about the pain, and he took her to a medical facility in Kolkata for treatment. They convinced her she needed an operation,her father said in a phone interview with The Washington Post. Medical staff at the facility told Sarkar she needed an immediate appendectomy. She underwent surgery the next day, she told India's the Telegraph. My husband warned me not to disclose the surgery in Kolkata to anyone,Sarkar told the Hindustan Times. They kept her inside her home for several months that followed, her father said. But after the appendectomy, Sarkars pain intensified this time, in her lower back. She pleaded with her husband to take her to see a doctor, but he refused.