KATHMANDU: The Ministry of Social Development under the State-5 is set to implement a special initiative to lessen maternal and child mortality rates.
Preparation is underway to equip all 363 birthing centers of the state with competent human resource and instruments, informed at a press conference organized here on Wednesday.
Minister for Social Development Sudarshan Baral shared the program would be implemented from the grant amount of Rs 100 million provided by the federal government.
He expressed his confidence that the program would help improve maternity service and thereby enhance health status of mother and child.
As part of the program, the existing health workers would be provided with training and each birthing center would receive different 26 types of health equipment, the minister said.
On the occasion, Director of State Health Training Center Butwal, Maheswor Shrestha informed that number of mother undergoing child delivery at health facilities has reached 57 percent and also hoped that the initiative would help reduce maternal child mortality rates.
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