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On 9 August 2022, at the Paropakar Maternity and Women’s Hospital in Kathmandu, Nepal, Sunita Rai (left) and husband Rajan (right) with their newborn son. Sunita had come to the hospital to seek treatment after her son was born prematurely. Seeing that Sunita was unable to breastfeed her child, healthworkers quickly referred her to the hospital’s newly-launched ‘Amrit Kosh’, the first human milk bank to be established in the country, which provided Sunita’s baby with breastmilk donated by other mothers.
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Tulsi Joshi, aged 32, holding a baby of whose mother she has followed throughout her pregnancy and encouraged her to deliver her baby at a local health clinic (instead of a home delivery).
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Janaki Odh’s 16-day old baby girl Nisha in Joshibunga, a village in Baitadi District, far western Nepal.
Sixteen days before we captured this story, she gave birth to a baby girl, Nisha. She had a home delivery, but halfway through she noticed that she had to find a trained midwife, which she found in the (UNICEF supported) health clinic down in the village centre. She was afraid as she had a neighbour who died during child birth, hence was afraid that this might have happened to her as well. Her husband recently passed away, before the delivery.
In 2024, some of Nepal’s MNH Acceleration Plan priorities include:
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On 27 June 2021, healthworker Pinki Sah attends to newborn Sunny Mahara in the NICU at the Janakpur Provincial Hospital in Dhanusha District in southern Nepal. The hospital is among two health facilities in the country where support for improved access to and use of oxygen through a UNICEF initiative, funded by USAID, is strengthening healthworkers’ abilities to save precious young lives.
As part of its efforts to reduce maternal and newborn mortality and stillbirths, Nepal is taking steps to improve the quality of maternal and newborn health. These include:
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The Results Framework for EWENE, detailing deliverables for each of the ten milestones: Policy and plans, Investment, Response and Resilience, Quality of care, Health workforce,
A two-pager published by ENAP EPMM and Child Survival Action ahead of the World Health Assembly 2024.
Photo © 2020 WHO / Tatiana Almeida. Midwives in Hope Field Hospital, Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, in September 2020.
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Midwives during WHO Head of Sub-Office Dr Kai von Harbou visit to Hope Field Hospital
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