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Head of the Central Department of Population Studies Ram Saran Pathak and experts including Puspa Lal Joshi, Laxmi Bilash Acharya, Bal Gopal Vaidya, Bharat Sharma, Ajeet Pradhan, Bishnu Nepal and Mahesh Puri. “The committee will soon recheck the technical processing and analysis of the scary figure related to deaths of new mothers, while being pregnant or within 42 days of termination of pregnancy, from any cause related to or aggravated by pregnancy,” Karki told this daily.In 2006, National Demographic Health Survey put the country’s MMR at 281, down from 539 in 1996 while the United Nations agencies including WHO, UNICEF, UNFPA and the World Bank estimates from 1990 to 2013 also claimed that Nepal drastically reduced maternal deaths by 75 per cent with latest MMR at 190.
