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By Joseph Adahnu,Yola
The Advent of modern family planning, Adamawa state women have embraces the programme by coming out in their numbers to the designated clinics.
During the three days programme organized by Adamawa state Primary Healthcare Development Agency in collaborate with the Challenge Initiative (TCI) in conjunction with Development Communications (DevComs) in Yola the state capital.
The programme has created awareness of the need to have a control of the needy and healthy society and capacity building with no fewer than 20 Journalists on media advocacy for Family Planning and reporting the state.
This, drew resource persons cut across state Ministry of Health, Ministry of Information and Strategy and Ministry of Women Affairs and Social Development aimed at equipping Journalists on Advocacy for Family Planning among the citizens.
One of the resource persoms, Evelyn John, a National master trainers in her presentation spoke on myth and misconception of family planning methods.
That, there is need for journalists to use their reportage and documentations to change these misconceptions within the populace.
While Mr. Onche Odeh, the lead consultant DevComs, in his presentation “Writing compelling human angle stories on family planning, emphasis the need for journalists to write reports that will have impacts on the people in the right perspective.
Adding that reporting based on experiences, the effects on the people, and how best they can be better off.
In a goodwill remark, commissioner of Information, Mrs Neido Kofulto commended the organizers and assured them of government’s readiness to partner with them to see how best to improve the health of the people.
Governor Ahamdu Umaru Finitri expressed passionate about health and health-related issues, your coming at this time is timely particularly now that the economic pressure is more on the citizens.
A visit to one of the caregiver at Atiku Abubakar in one of the Primary Health Care Center in Yola North local government area, Mrs Reachel Michael, a Director Maternal Child Health said “Women are now embracing the family planing concept to control childbearing as a result of awareness created and that more will be achieved when the mass media are involved”
According to her, the intervention, awareness created more adolescents and youths are making themselves available to access family planning, women between the ages of 19 to 35yrs both married and unmarried now adopted the modern family planning method considering the economic imbalance in Nigeria.
At Nassarawo Healthcare also in Yola North LG was Sani Musa who identifies the role played, Family Planning students are ungoing training in First Aids.
In Jambutu Clinic, Zelika Abdullahi said treatments are ongoing on some minor aspects which is sanitation, mobilization and tell them the side effect of Family Planning and others related that they can afford in FP.
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