Two postpartum mothers and their two newborns were medevacuated to Kathmandu-based Paropakar Maternity and Women's Hospital from the Sankhuwasabha District Hospital by a helicopter of the Nepal Army on Monday.

According to Bhawani Timsina, coordinator of the Safe Motherhood Programme of the District Health Office, under the federal government's President Women Upliftment Programme, a woman from ward 4 of Silichong Rural Municipality and her four-day-old baby, and a woman from Chichila Rural Municipality and her two-day-old baby were airlifted after their treatment was not possible at the district hospital.

The women and their babies will be treated free of cost at the Maternity Hospital, said Timsina.