Surkhet, July 24 -- year-old Sushila Roka of ward 14 of Musikot Municipality in Rukum West, June 4 was supposed to be the day her family welcomed the arrival of her twins. Instead, it became a race against time.

As labour complications grew severe, the young mother-to-be was rushed to the district hospital. Doctors there delivered a distressing warning: the delay in reaching the facility had placed both Sushila and her unborn twins in serious danger.

"Prepare yourselves for the worst. She was not brought in on time, and we cannot save the babies," Sushila's sister-in-law Nandakala Roka recalled the doctors telling her.

A silence fell over the family.

Sushila was carrying twins. She went into labour at home, but as her condition worsen...