Kathmandu, July 5 -- Turn off the hectic East-West Highway at Chandrauta, bump up a short dirt road, and you reach the equally busy Basic Health Services Hospital in Shivraj Municipality, Kapilvastu District. Small groups of people gather around its two single-storey buildings - some line up, others fan themselves in the morning heat.

To the left is a new, smaller building. The main room is unfinished and boxes of supplies are scattered on the floor, but other areas are being used. At one end, a pharmacist sits at a window serving a line of people outside. In an office at the other end, a nurse at a desk talks to a pregnant woman during a pre-delivery (antenatal care, or ANC) visit.

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