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Hi,

If you are visiting to Nepal you are most welcome to visit our free-standing birthing centre located at Kathmandu, established in July 2007. We provide 24-hours a day, 7-days a week cost-effective quality maternal and child health including reproductive health services to urban poor families in the locality. This centre has been established in 11 female health workers, mainly nurse-midwives initiative and little financial investment. This is the first and only nurse-midwive led birthing centre in the country. Our efforts have been appreciated by the international midwives who had visited to our centre and our government health officials. We provide free maternity care services as per the Government of Nepal health policy to all women who give birth in our centre. For this we have signed MoU with Ministry of Health and Population. 

That sounds interesting :)

I often travel in Asia - do you welcome visiting midwives?

It probably woudl be best to contact the center directly.

 Yes, we do. We love to have them because there is lot for us to learn from professional midwives because in Nepal we don't have professional midwives or registered midwives. Registered Nurses who practice midwifery and/or work in maternity units are usually called nurse-midwives. Our centre is managed by such types of nurse-midwives.