Saving pregnant women, new mothers, newborns, and elderly a challenge, Jajarkot health officials say

The home ministry has deployed experts to the earthquake-hit Jajarkot and Rukum West districts for clinical mentoring of survivors.

Sharmila BK, a 25-year-old new mother from ward 8 of Nalgad Municipality in Jajarkot district, died on Sunday. It is reported that the woman, who gave birth to her baby a month ago, died of hypothermia, a medical emergency in which the body loses heat faster than it produces.