{"id":34084,"date":"2021-07-15T15:00:34","date_gmt":"2021-07-15T06:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2021\/jul\/15\/nepal-sees-huge-rise-in-maternal-deaths-as-covid-keeps-women-at-home"},"modified":"2021-07-15T15:00:34","modified_gmt":"2021-07-15T06:00:34","slug":"nepal-sees-huge-rise-in-maternal-deaths-as-covid-keeps-women-at-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=34084","title":{"rendered":"Nepal sees huge rise in maternal deaths as Covid keeps women at home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Health workers fear deaths could reach levels not seen this century as up to 90% miss check-ups and many opt for home births<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/series\/coronavirus-live\/latest\">Coronavirus \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">See all our coronavirus coverage<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Earlier this month, 21-year-old Lakhu BK decided to have her baby at home in her village in the far west of Nepal. She had feared contracting Covid-19 if she went to a health centre. She lost her life giving birth.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI thought my daughter-in-law will die from [the] virus but did not think she would die from being unable to give birth,\u201d said her mother-in-law, Pamfi BK, 50.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2021\/jul\/15\/nepal-sees-huge-rise-in-maternal-deaths-as-covid-keeps-women-at-home\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Health workers fear deaths could reach levels not seen this century as up to 90% miss check-ups and many opt for home birthsCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageEarlier this month, 21-year-old Lakhu BK decided to have her baby at&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":543,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1066,59,346,1186,1722,241,79,61,281,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coronavirus","category-global-development","category-health","category-maternal-health","category-maternal-mortality","category-nepal","category-society","category-south-and-central-asia","category-women","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/543"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34084"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34084\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34085,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34084\/revisions\/34085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}