Silichong residents cut off from district headquarters

For lack of concrete bridges across Arun and Sankhuwa rivers, residents of Silichong Rural Municipality have to walk 25 kilometres to district headquarters.

Two years ago, Srijana Kulung, a resident of Tamku in Silichong Rural Municipality-3 who was pregnant then, died on her way to the district hospital in Khandbari. The villagers were carrying her on a stretcher and trying to make it to the hospital, which is more than 25 kilometres from Tamku.