Free helicopter rescues saving rural women from childbirth complications

Over 808 women from 44 districts have been airlifted since 2019, under the President’s Women Uplift Programme.

Twenty-one-year-old Junu BK from Rahagaun in ward 10 of Thulibheri Municipality, Dolpa, experienced severe postpartum hemorrhage after delivering her baby with a retained placenta. Thanks to an emergency airlift by the Nepal Army last week, she was medevaced to Surkhet where both the mother and newborn are receiving treatment at the provincial hospital. “That day, I thought my life was over. I never imagined that a helicopter would come to save me,” Junu recalled the ordeal.