Pregnant women in Achham die for want of treatment

Rural women are deprived of safe motherhood services due to illiteracy, poverty and lack of public health awareness.

Purnakala Nepali, a 31-year-old resident of Nepalibada in Turmakhand Rural Municipality-1, died of delivery complications while she was giving birth to her fifth child in September last year. Her husband had died just two months earlier. Four of their children—aged 2 to 13—have become orphans.