Niger Delta
Ministry, NGO Partner On Family Planning
The Edo Ministry of Health, last Thursday pledged its support for Nigerian Urban Reproductive Health Initiatives (NURHI), an NGO, to ensure good family planning services in Benin.
The Permanent Secretary of the ministry, Dr Peter Ugbodaga, made the pledge at the first stakeholders meeting, organised by the NGO at the Edo Hospital Management Board, Benin.
Ugbodaga who was represented by Dr Osamwonyi Irowa, Director of Disease Control in the ministry, said that the current contraceptive rate of Edo was 26 per cent.
He said he hoped that NURHI would help to increase the rate through awareness creation and community participation.
“Family planning is one of the pillars of safe motherhood; family planning is health and health is wealth,” he said.
The Project Director of NURHI, Mrs Mojisola Odeku, said that investing in family planning saved lives.
Odeku, who was represented by Mrs Toyin Afachung, Demand Generation Advisor, NURHI, said that families would benefit greatly, when family heads planned the number of children they intended to have.
She also debunked misconceptions that the use of contraceptives could cause cancer, infertility or was harmful to the body.
“When family heads consider the use of family planning methods, the women and children benefit from it greatly, it saves their lives and reduces infant mortality and saves money,” she said.
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