Delivery service being rendered in torchlight in Humla

Simkot, April 19 : Recently, problem with delivery case was reported at Thehe Health Post in Humla district in absence of electricity. The healthcare assistants here used mobile phone’s torch light or regular torch light as a source of light during the delivery service of a local woman. Remote villages in Humla district has been living in almost dark in lack of electricity resulting in grave difficulty in rendering various public services especially healthcare services. The Hildum Distribution Centre supplying electricity from a local micro hydro power project in the locality has been imposing 17 to 18 hours of load shedding lately due to which there is decline in electricity supply in the health post, informed Chief of the Health Post, Dan Bahadur Bohora. Bohora shared that a 20-year-old expecting mother was admitted in the health post on April 17 and her delivery process which went for nearly three hours was done using torch light. To make the matter worse, the solar panel installed in the Health Post is also out of order affecting the delivery of healthcare services, grieved Bohora. Patients and health service providers both are facing sheer difficulty due to lack of smooth supply of electricity, he added. Attending and cleaning newborns and new mothers with cold water are another risk facing the newborn and new mothers, explained Bohora.