Nepal’s anaemia fight stalls as iron and folic acid supplies run out

As federal, provincial government’s pass the buck, 34 percent of women and 43 percent of children in Nepal are anaemic.

Hundreds of thousands of pregnant women, new mothers, and girls between 10 and 19 have been deprived of iron and folic acid for months, as state-run health facilities across the country have run out of the vital supplements.