by Arjun Poudel in The Kathmandu Post, Mar 27, 2023Every year, hundreds of women in Nepal succumb to preventable deaths from excessive bleeding and high blood pressure, a new report by the National Statistics Office showed. More alarmingly, a significant number of maternal deaths, during pregnancy or after childbirth, are occuring due to a non-maternity cause, suicide, which also is preventable. Of the 611 maternal deaths on which the study was based, 67 percent occurred…