Pregnant women given ambulance and lab test services for free

Baniyani: As part of safe motherhood, the pregnant women have been provided with ambulance service and lab tests for free in Haldibar Rural Municipality, Jhapa. 

The rural municipality has also given cash amount to pregnant women, which is aimed at supporting economically poor women and encouraging them to deliver babies in the health care facilities, Chairman of Haldibari Rural Municipality Rabindra Lingden said. 

Under the Safe Delivery Incentive Programme, pregnant women are provided with Rs 2,000 in cash for visiting the health facilities for regular checkups.

Within the rural municipality, they are offered ambulance service for free and they get 50 per cent in subsidy if the pregnant women were to visit other health facilities out of Haldibari Rural Municipality. 

The rural municipality spent Rs 429,000 in the last fiscal year as part of the Safe Delivery Incentive Programme. 

Likewise, the rural municipality has set up a Citizen Treatment Fund to support the treatment of poor people in Haldibari. Under the scheme, the rural municipality supported Rs 528,000 to the needy people last year, Chairman Lingden shared.