A new special neonatal care unit brings hope to improving services for neonatal health
A newly equipped neonatal care unit at Ilam District Hospital means families no longer have to travel long distances for the specialized newborn care their babies need.
Quality maternity care services in Nepal’s rural areas is bringing behavioral change in safe motherhood practices
At a renovated birthing center in the hills of Ilam, mothers like Tulachan now arrive with confidence, part of a quiet shift in how her whole community thinks about giving birth.
Determined to Deliver Closer to Home
In one Ilam community, residents were so determined to have a proper birthing center that they raised their share of the cost from their own pockets, and turned a long-neglected health post into a model facility.
Rural birthing center helping to create a new culture of institutional maternal care
Two years ago, this remote Ilam health post had a wooden table for a maternity bed and no institutional births at all; today it's the model for its whole rural municipality.
