NUWAKOT: A birthing centre has been brought into operation at Manedanda health post of Kispang Rural Municipality-5 in Nuwakot district.

The birthing centre has been brought into operation to ensure citizens' access to health services, shared Kispang Rural Municipality Chair Chhatra Bahadur Lama.

"There was a compulsion for pregnant and expectant mothers to visit distant health facilities in absence of birthing centre at the then Manakamana VDC," said Lama.

The rural municipality has invested its internal resources to run the birthing centre.

Nepali Congress leader and member of the House of Representatives, Bahadur Singh Lama Tamang, had donated four ropanis of land for construction of the birthing centre.