50,000 clients accept family planning in Niger State

A total of 50,000 clients in Niger state have accepted the Family Planning method adding that the development was following the support and encouragement given by the State government.

The State’s Commissioner for Health and Hospital Services, Dr Mohammed Makusidi who stated this at a media forum in Minna, the state capital also stressed the need for Nigerlites to key into the Family Planning programme for maximum benefit.

Represented by the Director, Planning, Research and Statistics, Dr Inuwa Junaidu, he explained that the Niger state government has recorded a significant increase in the number of women accessing family planning methods across the state.

According to him, “they are currently working with traditional and religious leaders as well as husbands by virtue of the community they are to enable more families embraced family planning method.”

Dr Mohammed Makusidi who went down memory lane, however, noted that during the Corona Virus pandemic outbreak in the country that necessitated lockdown, highlighting that it has brought family planning back to square one in Niger state where women abandon it but they have overcome such challenges now.

He said the Niger state government is using family planning to solve the problem of population explosion and maternal mortality where 512 women out of every 1,000 births in Nigeria die annually.

In his remark, the communication Officer Pathfinder International, Mr Bayo Ewuola said that they have recently rounded up their activities in Niger state, adding that the organisation has provided grants, and capacity building as well as assisted some state governments to domesticate health policies to achieve unprecedented success.

Coordinator, State Primary Health Care Development Board, Mrs Dorcas Talatu said due to insecurity in some parts of Niger state they only meet clients at the Internally Displaced Person(IDPs) camps of affected local government councils to scale up the family planning method.

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