World Contraceptive Day: market women commends TCI, DEVCOMS on family planning services
Women at the Ojuwoye Market, Mushin has commended The Challenge Initiate (TCI) and Development Communication Network (DEVCOMS) on its active participation on family planning services
The women expressed their satisfaction about the family planning services during an outreach at the market in Lagos on Thursday.
The theme of the outreach was “A Choice For All (Freedom To Plan, Power To Choose)” that took place in different parts of Lagos.
A satisfied user, Mrs Mutiu Ajibade, food sales executive, said that the exercise was free and easily be accessed.
Ajibade said she took advantage of the exercise because its not far from where she stays compared to going to the hospital and staying all day-long and at times unattended to.
She said it was of great advantage to her because she had pre knowledge of the fact that one has to space child bearing so as not to get old so soon.
She said it gives room for proper planning on child bearing and nurturing as the case may be and more advantageous compared to having to terminate a foetus due to unwanted pregnancy.
She advised women to limit their children to three in the family for proper planning and upbringing..
She said she got to know about the program through awareness by the organizers while passing by and opted for the implant type.
Mrs Modinat Omowunmi, health officer, Odi-Olowo, Lagos said there was need for the program to take place as women needs to know what was at stake in child bearing.
Omowunmi said it was an outreach which was being carried out from time to time to sensitised the women in the area.
She said that Family planning was all about child spacing and maintaining the minimal number that could be catered for as parents.
She said that the contraceptives are good but test has to be run on users to know the best for individuals.
She said that the programme has been on for sometime and this was second time she was participating and it has been helpful since it has been introduced.
Mr Mohammed Abdullahi, community orientation mobilizer officer, Mushin, Lagos, National Orientation Agency (NOA) said the notice to the sensitisation programme was short but the turn out was on high side.
Abdullahi said he has to make himself available to ensure the exercise was successful in commemoration of ‘world contraceptives day’ to educate the Mushin indigene and Nigeria at large on the importance of contraceptives usage.
“Child spacing has come to play as both parties (husband and wife) has to put understanding in place and concrete evidences to back it up.
“Planning is so important to the family so as to cater for the number of children they can raise successfully” he said.
He also hinted that government was putting in place policies that could be of great advantage to the citizenry.
Mrs Oluwatoyin Ojobowale, a mobilizer officer, also corroborated the importance of the day set aside to checkmate the rate of child bearing not ot go beyond control.
Ojobowale said that the programme was a good one that’s why they have come to showcase it’s importance to the women in the market.
She said that the contraceptives were free
and enjoined women to go out and take advantage of the programme.
She said the programme has been yielding positive results as this marks second year she has been mobilizing for the initiative.
On her part, Mrs Folasade kikekan, an health mobilizer officer, said that many women lack what’s called family planning which makes them to get pregnant unknowingly.
Kikekan said that there are several types of family planning methods
and enjoined women to take good care of themselves to avoid being a workaholics as they don’t have time for rest.