Remote Rukum villages lack even basic health services

Difficult terrain and lack of awareness among residents pose a challenge to public health. People have to walk for many hours to reach district hospital.

On August 12, four local men from Sisne Rural Rural Municipality-1 carried a 17-year-old post-partum woman on a stretcher from Deukhola to her home in Pakhapani, a 10-hour journey on foot.