Kathmandu, Nov. 6 -- There are only 200 Depo-Provera, a birth control shot, and 350 intrauterine devices, also a birth control means which health workers insert into the uterus, in the store of the Health Logistics Management Centre of Bagmati Province.

These doses of contraception are in stock only because officials kept them despite high demand from health facilities in the province.

"We have been unable to supply Depo-Provera, intrauterine devices (IUD) to health facilities for months due to the lack of those means in stock," said Nelson Mahat, information officer at the centre. "Demands for means of family planning, especially Depo-Provera and intrauterine devices (IUD), from health facilities are high but we have no stocks to suppl...