LAMJUNG: Besisahar Municipality has resumed the distribution of Nyano Jhola (Warm Clothes Bag) to women who have gone to health institutions to deliver their babies.
The distribution of Nyano Jhola had come to a halt post the election at local levels. Budget of the municipality had been allocated to the local levels thereby putting a stop to distribution of the bag for the past four months. The government programme of providing the bag to new mothers had stopped at a time when the number of pregnant women undergoing safe delivery at health institutions had been on a rise.
However, the municipality has now given continuity to the distribution after making budget provisions for the same. The bags have been provided to Lamjung District Community Hospital based in the district headquarters Besisahar, Lamjung Model Hospital, and birthing centres at Nalma, Purankot, Udipur and Chiti in the district.
200 bags have been provided to Lamjung District Community Hospital and 10 bags each to the four birthing centres to be given to women who come to deliver at the health facilities, informed Health Chief at Besisahar Municipality, Parmeshwar Piya.
The government has been providing an incentive of Rs 1,400 along with the warm clothes bag to women who deliver at health facilities to ensure safe delivery and reduce maternal and child mortality rates.
The incentive amount comprise transportation incentive and incentive towards carrying out four ante-natal check ups during the course of pregnancy. This initiative falls under the safe motherhood programme of the Government of Nepal implemented by Department of Health Services under Ministry of Health. The incentive amount varies in the different geographical regions of Nepal.
The Nyano Jhola contains warm clothes for the mother as well as her child along with others basic items.