One in five pregnancy airlift involves teenageers, exposes early marriage

Despite Nepal’s legal ban on marriage before the age of 20, many girls continue to marry underage and become pregnant during their teenage years.

For 19-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.