Deprivation, hunger and infant deaths in a remote Bajura village

Mothers in Muktikot suffer from lactation insufficiency for lack of nutritious food and lose their babies either in the womb, at birth or at neonatal and postneonatal stages.

Manpuja Kami, a resident of Muktikot in Swamikartik Khapar Rural Municipality-1 in Bajura district, turned 22 recently. Married to Hiramani Kami of a neighbouring village five years ago, Manpuja wants two children but out of the three children she gave birth to in the last three years, only one survives.