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.
