SIMKOT, April 19: Maternity care for delivering babies at Thehe Health Post in Humla district is severely impacted by the lack of electricity supply.
The healthcare assistants here use a mobile phone or a regular torch light as a source of illumination when local women give birth.
Remote villages in Humla district have been enduring darkness due to the lack of electricity resulting in grave difficulty in rendering various public services especially healthcare services.
The Hildum Distribution Centre supplying electricity from a local micro hydro power project in the locality has been imposing 17 to 18 hours of load-shedding lately due to which there is decline in electricity supply to the health post, informed chief of the health post, Dan Bahadur Bohora.
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Bohora shared that a 20-year-old expecting mother was admitted to the health post on April 17 and her delivery process which went for nearly three hours was done using a torch light.
To make the matter worse, the solar panel installed at the health post is also out of order affecting the delivery of healthcare services, grieved Bohora.
Patients and health service providers both are facing sheer difficulty due to lack of smooth supply of electricity, he added.
Attending and cleaning newborns and new mothers with cold water are another risk facing the newborn and new mothers, explained Bohora.
Due to increasing power outages in the Hildum hydro power project, health posts at Bargaun, Dadaphaya and Syada are also facing a similar fate at present.
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