In Nawalparasi ‘unsafe abortion claims over 300 lives yearly’

BY OUR CORRESPONDENT

Parasi, June 28: More than 300 women are believed to die every year due to unsafe abortion and other causes in Nawalparasi district.

Keeping in view a high maternal mortality rate in the district, a safe motherhood programme will be launched in the district. A workshop, which was coordinated by the District Health Office, held recently in Parasi Bazaar has devised a strategy to reduce the maternal mortality rate within 2001 by generating awareness about safe motherhood among the women.

The workshop has also passed a resolution to conduct training programmes to raise awareness among the women about women’s general health. The awareness programme is expected to be helpful in reducing the rate of women’s mortality rate, as majority of women in the district are not alert against the unsafe abortion.

In order to launch the awareness programme more effectively, a taskforce has been formed under the coordination of Durga Dutta Bhandari, member of Nawalparasi District Development Committee (DDC).

The workshop was participated in by representatives of local body, NGOs and District Health Office.

Meanwhile in Chautara, works under the community drinking water and cleanliness project launched by the Forum for Integreted Rural Development and Environment Conservation with the cooperation of the Rural Drinking Water and Cleanliness Development Committee, Sindhupalchowk has been completed at Baskharka village development committee recently.

Altogether 22 public water taps have been installed under the community drinking water and cleanliness project at a cost of Rs 625,000 received from the rural drinking water and cleanliness fund development committee, Sindhupalchowk and voluntary labour worth Rs 300,000 contributed by the local people.

About 200 families of the village development committee have benefitted from the public water taps installed by the community drinking water and cleanliness project.

Likewise, a toilet has been built at the Janahit Primary School of the VDC. A financial assistance of Rs 10,000 has been provided to the Women Technical Cooperation Services Group under the women empowerment and income generation programme, according programme supervisor Purna Shrestha.

At the programme inaugurated by DDC vice-chairman Damber Bahadur Aryal, general secretary of the forum Bharat Parajuli, acting VDC chairman Rekpa Tamang and field coordinator Narayan Kaji Shrestha also expressed their views.

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