
Nepali daktar
[PHP Nepal Vol 1 Issue 7 Jul 2011] | Not everything in this country in transition is to be cursed at or looked down upon. Setting aside the political imbroglio, economic constraints, power-shortage and all; there's indeed a matter that brings a rarely available pride for us and shows a glimmer of hope in the field of health. The achievements in terms of lowering children and maternal mortality ratios which are also the targets of millennium development goals (MDGs)-4 and 5 respectively are really worthy of salute. Maternal mortality ratio (MMR) that was 539 per one hundred thousand live-births in 1996 (Nepal Family Health Survey/NFHS) has been brought to 281 by 2006 (Nepal Demographic Health Survey/NDHS conducted quinquennially).