Women of reproductive age in Ogun State have been enjoined to adopt the usage of Family Planning in order to avoid unintended pregnancies and achieve appropriate child spacing.
This was advocated by the Ogun State Government in collaboration with the Society for Family Health (SFH), at the Bi-annual review meeting of ’Delivering Innovation In Self-Care’ (DISC 2.0).
The programme, a Project of the SFH was conducted with Health Secretaries, Reproductive Health officers, Health Education Officers and Monitoring and Evaluation Officers in attendance.
In his remarks at the event, Executive Secretary of the Ogun State Primary Health Care Development Board, Dr. Elijah Ogunsola, said the State Government had ensured procurement of Deliverables consecutively in the last 2 years in order to avoid stock out of Family Planning commodities in the State.
Ogunsola hinted that measures were being put in place for postpartum care by giving mothers commodities of choice after delivery, in order to improve on women health care, assuring that the State government would continue to do the needful to combat maternal mortality rate.
In his goodwill message, the Business and Strategic Information Manager for DISC 2.0 Project, Society for Family Health, Mr. Fidelis Edet, appreciated the efforts of the State Government in leading the pace through empowering women to take care of their reproductive health needs with self-injection.
He noted that the mo contraceptives prevalence rate (MCPR) was low at 15 percent, hence the need to advocate, adopt, and sustain the use of contraceptives for healthy child spacing options.
Edet stated that the goals of DISC 2.0 project in Ogun State were aimed at achieving an improved Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR) outcomes through the expansion of self-care solutions, and integrating them as an essential part of resilient health system.
Reacting, representative of the Federal Ministry of Health, Mrs. Stella Adebayo, commended the State for taking Family Planning services as part of its responsibilities by ensuring adequate supplies of deliverables, urging service providers and other stakeholders to ensure proper enlightenment among women of reproductive age on the benefits of the services.
