More women visiting Lubhu-based health center for abortion

Lalitpur – The number of women visiting the Lubhu-based Primary Health Center in Lalitpur, for safe abortion is on the rise.

The center said that in the fiscal year 2073-74 BS, it had provided abortion services to 54 women, and in the first nine months of the current fiscal, this number has already exceeded 60. It may rise in the future. 

According to center's health assistant Arjun Labad, both kinds of abortion services (use of pills and surgical) are available in the center.

Abortion through the use of pills is recommended for pregnancy up to nine months and a surgical method is applied for the termination of fetus from nine to 12 weeks.

In normal case, abortion within only first 12 weeks is legalized in Nepal and in some exceptional cases such as rape, incest and child and mother's health issues, abortion within the first 18 weeks is permissible by the abortion law. ---