PLAN FOR THE NUMBER OF
CHILDREN YOU CAN CATER FOR- MEDICAL EXPERTS
Medical experts have advised Nigerians to plan for the children they will have in order to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
They
stated this at a training programme organized by the Nigerian Urban
Reproductive Health Initiative (NURHI) for the World Health Committee (WHC)
members in Kosofe, Alimosho and Agege Local Government Areas of Lagos State to
create more awareness on family planning in their various communities.
Speaking with news men, the Medical Officer of Health, Agege LGA, Dr Fausat Sani said, there’s a lot of misconception about family planning and people need to get the right message, “there are some people who don’t believe in it, some have religious belief about it but family planning is to plan for the number of children you can cater for.
Gone are
the days when we live everything to chances, now survival of the children is
high. ‘If they get what they are supposed to get and they are immunized at the
appropriate age, their survival is sure but when you have too many, there comes
poverty, they are not fed properly, the nutrition is poor and they are not able
to attain their potential.”
‘If they get what they are supposed to get and they are immunized at the appropriate age, their survival is sure but when you have too many, there comes poverty, they are not fed properly, the nutrition is poor and they are not able to attain their potential.”
She said
enlightening the community leaders will help propagate the right message to the
people they live with.
“The
community leaders are there with the community, they are in the community with
the people and they will in turn pass the right information to the people on
family planning.”
Adding,
she said, “If you plan your family, poverty is out of it, if you are able to
get rid of poverty, every other thing comes to fall in place, you can feed your
children, send them to your desired school, and you’re sure of sustaining them
and have a bright future.”
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