Safe Motherhood in Nepal

This report presents an overview of a policy process carried out during the months of August and September 2005 to reach consensus on a draft National Maternal and Neonatal Package of Services (MNH Package). The process was facilitated by two consultants, Dr. Madhu Devkota, a local paediatrician and public health professor with extensive  experience in safe motherhood and Pamela Putney, a nurse-midwife, maternal/child health specialist with experience in policy and health sector reform. The consultants were contracted and supported by Options through the Nepal Support to Safe Motherhood Project (SSMP), funded by DFID. The purpose of the assignment was to support DoHS (FHD) and MoH (Human Resource and Financial Management Division) to develop a rational, evidence-based and contextually appropriate package of essential services to address the basic health needs of mothers, newborns
and children of Nepal.