The Executive Secretary, Ogun State Primary Healthcare Development
Ogunsola made this known during a Workshop organised by the State Primary Health Care Development Board in collaboration with a Development Partner, The Challenge Initiative (TCI) held at Providence Hotel, Abeokuta,
The ES said that the essence of the workshop was to come up with a Strategic Plan for Social Behavioural Change Communication so as to improve on the Contraceptive Prevalence Rate (CPR) in the State.
He noted that the present administration had made available different platforms of which the Social Behavioural Change Communication Committee was one in order to identify the best communication strategy to
Ogunsola debunked some of the problem affecting family planning including different myths and misconception as some women believed that if they take up FP they would develop one health challenge or the other, stressing that the importance of coming together of all stakeholders was to channel a communication strategy on how to better improve on the CPR of the State.
The Board boss highlighted some of the advantages of family planning, to include averting unnecessary abortion of pregnancies, prolonging the life of mothers, allowing couples to space children for better economic and social life without limiting the numbers of children they could have.
He commended the efforts of the state government at ensuring that commodities were made available at all times in all primary healthcare facilities across the state, as well as creating an enabling environment for partners and investors in the State.
Also speaking, the State Program Coordinator, Mrs. Adebusola Oyeyemi said that the Strategic Plan was like a chart in the course of FP communication in Ogun, adding that it would be a guide for all stakeholders as well as Development Partners in the future.
In their separate remarks, participants at the workshop, Messrs Omotunde Arisekola , Adetokunbo Salami and Miss Bólúwatife Fajobi opined that women of childbearing age required the right knowledge that must be factual as well as comprehensive, noting that the workshop was apt as it would ensure that there was a roadmap that would encourage the adoption and uptake of FP in the State.
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