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Chandrakoth rural municipality of Gulmi has been declared as a rural municipality with full institutional maternity services.
Addressing the announcement program, Health Minister of Lumbini Province Khem Bahadur Saru said that it is necessary to expand social and mental health services along with infrastructure in the health sector. He said that it is mandatory for the government at that level to invest now.
Declaring Chandrakot Rural Municipality of Gulmi as a rural municipality with full institutional maternity services, he said that it is now mandatory to improve social, mental and emotional health services for the health of citizens.
Minister Saru said that since frustration and mental health problems are increasing in the society, the local government should also prioritize them in order to reduce them. "Now, the local government is forced to allocate a budget for mental and social health problems," he said.
Chandrakot Rural Municipality of Gulmi is the 20th rural municipality of the province and the fifth rural municipality of Gulmi to be declared as a fully institutionalized maternity rural municipality among the 119 local levels of Lumbini Province.
According to the National Census 2078, 151 mothers die during childbirth in Nepal and 207 mothers die in Lumbini province. Among them, the number of deaths due to bleeding is 32 percent.
Minister Saru said that the state government is making a program to reduce the number of mothers who die from 207 per lakh to 70 in the coming year and it is being conducted as a campaign. Similarly, 46 percent of mothers die every 24 hours and 20 percent every 48 hours.
In Chandrakot rural municipality, 100 percent of the 190 pregnant women who gave birth in 1 year reached the health institution and gave birth, the number of women who gave birth 4 times according to the health protocol was 97.89 percent and the number of women who gave birth 3 times was 98.94 percent and the number of pregnant women who gave birth at home and on the road was reduced to zero, the chairman Yuvraj Khatri said. .
"We have built birthing centers in 6 health institutions to make the municipality fully equipped with institutional maternity services," he said, "The campaign of safe motherhood awareness program has also been continuously run in all villages."
