Two years ago, 20-year-old Sharmila Sunar of Sallekhola, Triveni Rural Municipality-6, traveled for about one and a half hours to District Hospital Salyan for her first pregnancy test. He had to go to the district hospital twice for video X-ray. Being pregnant for the second time, she has now got the opportunity to undergo a pregnancy test by video X-ray at Luham health center.

She saved 2000 rupees in car rental and other expenses by taking a video x-ray at a health center near her home. 

Similarly, 25-year-old Vimala Oli of Bagchaur Municipality-7 Kotmoula also came to the district hospital after traveling for more than two hours for a video X-ray for pregnancy test when she was pregnant for the first time. She is now pregnant for the second time and this time she did not have to go to the district hospital. She has taken easy service by doing a video x-ray at the local health post. 

After 10 local levels of the district purchased video x-ray machines under the rural ultrasound program and started video x-ray services through each health institution as mobile camps every month, pregnant women in remote areas were able to get pregnancy tests at village health posts. Pregnant women do not have to go to the hospital for video x-ray services after starting to provide services through health centers every month through mobile camps. 

Pregnant women who were forced to go to the district hospital and outside the district due to various hardships in the past are now relieved. Parvati Nepali of Triveni Rural Municipality-5 Luham said that after buying a video X-ray through the rural ultrasound program, the compulsion to go to Dang and District Hospital Salyan for pregnancy test is over. She informed that it was a great relief.

She said, 'I had to leave home early in the morning and go to the district hospital. Since the video x-ray was only available after 12 noon, we had to wait in line for a long time. It was very difficult to return home in the evening. If we did not get a car at that time, we had to walk.

26-year-old Kamala Roka said that she did not have to go to Mission Hospital Chaurjahari, Surkhet, Nepalgunj after regular video x-ray services were resumed through the health post at Chiura in Bangad Kupinde municipality. He informed that after the municipality started the video x-ray service, pregnant women can easily know the status of their unborn child, how it is sitting, whether it is safe or not.

'Earlier, when traveling by car for a long time, it was very difficult because of the dirt road. Otherwise, there would have been fear of miscarriage, the life of the pregnant woman would have been in danger due to bleeding,' she said, 'now it has become much easier.'

Prabhat Kumar Shrestha, the health coordinator of Triveni rural municipality, has started the service through Luham's health center and aims to expand it to all wards every year, in order to end the compulsion to travel for a long time and run outside the district for pregnancy tests at a time when they should be resting at home. tell

'In a year, 3/400 women get pregnant in the municipality. Until last year, everyone was forced to go outside to take a pregnancy test. Now there is no need to go anywhere other than the nearest health institution," he said. He says that the video x-ray service will reduce premature newborns and maternal deaths. 

Subas Hamal, head of the health branch of Kapurkot Rural Municipality, said that they have been taking video x-rays of pregnant women as mobile camps once a month to all the health posts using the machine purchased by the municipality. He informed that because of this service, the pregnant women in remote areas are very comfortable and the newborn and maternal mortality rate has been reduced. 

Video X-ray is very necessary to understand the health condition of the child and mother in the womb, so that pregnant women and newborns do not die prematurely, said Vasudev Pokharel, Health Coordinator of Bangad Kupinde Municipality, that the service has been started through Health Chowki Mulkhola. "Women who used to spend 500 rupees for a pregnancy test and were forced to spend 2/3 thousand for traveling by car and other things, how much do they not have to spend anymore? No one should be deprived of services due to lack of finances,' he said. 

Yagya Bahadur Basnet, health coordinator of Darma Rural Municipality, said that although he started video x-ray service to check pregnancy once a year during the mobile camp in the past years, because not all pregnant women could benefit from it, now he is providing the service regularly.