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laxmitamang

About: Laxmi Tamang is a Nepal trained nurse and Australian trained public health professional with more than 20 years of experience in diverse settings, with diverse communities, in clinical, national and international developmental agencies and educational institutions in regard to sexual and reproductive health. Under her leadership and initiation, she led to establish the first and only independent nurses-led birthing and reproductive health center in Nepal with the concept of social enterprise in 2007, and a professional association of Midwives, in 2010. Currently she is a President of the midwives’ association of Nepal. She is committed to promote independent midwifery practice in the country to encourage natural, holistic and low intervention care for women wherever possible, while being vigilant in recognizing risks and acting promptly and responsibly to achieve safety and well-being to both mother and baby.