Residents of Khotang depend on helicopters to reach hospitals

Pregnant women suffer the most from a lack of good hospitals and roads in Khotang.

It has been eight months since Manikala Rai’s husband Shirmani Rai died. Manikala, mother to seven children–five sons and two daughters, wonders if her husband would have been alive if she had been able to take him to a hospital on time.