Health facilities across the country without birth control shots for months

Failure to purchase the essential family planning means since 2024, appreciation of the dollar, and suspension of USAID grants blamed for critical shortage of contraceptives.

There are only 200 Depo-Provera, a birth control shot, and 350 intrauterine devices, also a birth control means which health workers insert into the uterus, in the store of the Health Logistics Management Centre of Bagmati Province.