Baglung, Feb. 28 -- A woman from ward 8 of Badigad Rural Municipality suffered excessive bleeding after giving birth at home last year. She lost consciousness due to postpartum hemorrhage, prompting her family to carry her on foot for eight hours to the then Burtibang Primary Health Center (now Burtibang Hospital).

Unfortunately, due to the superstitious belief that a newborn should not be breastfed before the placenta is expelled, she also lost her child. Her condition worsened as the placenta failed to detach and the difficult journey to the health institution made her health even more critical. With the help of neighbours, who carried her on a stretcher, she arrived at Burtibang after eight hours, drenched in blood and unconscious. Up...