| Ensuring Adequate Human Resources for Safe Delivery Services |
Quality health services can only be provided if adequate skilled human resources are available where they are needed. A human resource strategy is required to establish a system for rational development, deployment and management of trained staff to support quality services at all levels of health facility across the country. .... |
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| Ensuring Local 24-Hour Delivery and Emergency Services |
To ensure every birth receives the care needed to make it safe, delivery services with skilled staff at clean, properly equipped facilities are needed near women’s homes; 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Emergency first aid and referral services also need to be within easy reach, as time is of the essence when complications occur. .... |
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| Advocating for the Motherhood Protection Bill |
| Legislation is needed to ensure safe delivery as every woman\'s right. The motherhood protection bill is proposed as a means of institutionalising improvements needed to save the lives of women and babies. Key issues include: women’s right to make decisions about their own health; improved and accessible health services; effective emergency referral systems; free delivery care..... |
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| Advocating for a Gender and Social Inclusion Unit |
Traditional dominance of Nepali society by high caste males significantly limits the opportunities of women and people from ethnic groups and lower castes, trapping them in a endless cycle of poverty and exclusion. This has particular effects on the health of women and excluded groups, and strategic action is needed to break this mould and directly address gender and social inclusion issues related to health and safe motherhood. Establishment and strengthening of a Gender and Social Inclusion Unit (GSIU) is required within the Ministry of Health and Population, as a first step in the process of making access to health services more inclusive. .... |
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| Promoting Access to Safe Delivery Services in Remote Areas |
| Planning of roads, bridges and positioning of health facility buildings does not adequately consider the needs of mothers. As a result many women are unable to reach a health facility easily for routine maternal health care or in an emergency. This discourages them from using services and causes potentially fatal delays..... |
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