Lalita Gotame, a resident of Ward No. 4, in Dhorpatan Municipality, in Baglung district, recently birthed her third child. She gave birth to her first child in India and the other two in Khunga, a village in the ward.
Lalita had no access to any health check-up facility when she conceived for the second time. To make the matter worse, she was forced to give birth to her second child in a shed at the Thulogar area of Khunga, because giving birth at home is seen as a bad omen according to the deeply-held superstitious beliefs.
