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Received: 13 August 2021

Accepted: 10 October 2022

First Online: 15 November 2022

Declarations

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: The ethical approval for the study was obtained from Nepal Health Research Council (NHRC) (ref 1643–2017, registration no. 26-2017). As described in the data collection procedure section, three different tools (checklist, format and questionnaire) were used for data collection. With the approval from the respective hospital management/review committee, secondary data were collected for readiness and availability of perinatal care in the hospitals using a checklist (tool 1). The completed checklists signed by the directors of respective hospitals have been securely stored in the central research office in Kathmandu. Well-informed verbal consent, approved by the respective hospital management/ethics committee, was obtained from all the health workers participating in the bottleneck analysis workshop for data collection using the format for causal/ bottleneck analysis (tool 2). Approved by the respective hospital management/ethics committee, a questionnaire was used to collect secondary data from medical records and registries (tool 3). All methods were performed complying with the relevant guidelines and regulations according to the declaration of Helsinki.

: Not applicable.

: The last author Ashish KC is a member of the editorial board of BMC Pediatrics journal. The authors declare that they have no other competing interests.