Ogun Govt. SFH Advocates Family Planning For Child Spacing Among Women

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The Ogun State Government in collaboration with the Society for Family Health (SFH), has called on women of reproductive age to adopt the usage of Family Planning in order to avoid unwanted pregnancies and support child spacing.

This was advocated in a Bi-annual review meeting of ’Delivering Innovation In Self-Care’ (DISC 2.0) Project of the Society for Family Health, with Health Secretaries, Reproductive Health officers, Health Education Officers and Monitoring and Evaluation Officers in Abeokuta.

In his remarks, Executive Secretary of the Ogun State Primary Health Care Development Board, Dr. Elijah Ogunsola, said the state government had ensured procurement of deliverables consecutively in the last 2 years in order to avoid stock out of Family Planning commodities in the state.

Ogunsola hinted that measures were being put in place for postpartum care by giving mothers commodities of choice after delivery, in order to improve on women health care, assuring that the state government would continue to do the needful to combat maternal mortality rate.

In his goodwill message, the Business and Strategic Information Manager for DISC 2.0 Project, Society for Family Health, Mr. Fidelis Edet, appreciated the efforts of the state government in leading the pace through empowering women to take care of their reproductive health needs with self-injection.

He noted that the modern contraceptives prevalence rate (MCPR) was low at 15 percent, hence the need to advocate, adopt, and sustain the use of contraceptives for healthy child spacing options.

Edet stated that the goals of DISC 2.0 project in the state were aimed at achieving an improved Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR) outcomes through the expansion of self-care solutions, and integrating them as an essential part of resilient health system.

Reacting, representative of the Federal Ministry of Health, Mrs. Stella Adebayo, commended the state for taking Family Planning services as part of its responsibilities by ensuring adequate supplies of deliverables, urging service providers and other stakeholders to ensure proper enlightenment among women of reproductive age on the benefits of the services.

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Dele Fashomi

Dele Fashomi, seasoned journalist and communication teacher, is a holder of Master of Arts degree in Communication and Language Arts from the University of Ibadan in 1992/93.

Earlier, he had bagged a Bachelor degree from the same university in 1984, after which he proceeded to the Nigerian Institute of Journalism, Lagos, in 1990, for a postgraduate diploma in Journalism.

He had done many courses in communication, including the EU-BBC Editing Course in 2002.

Mr. Fashomi combines effectively the practice, research and teaching of communication. And to date, he has published two academic works in communication: Issues in Communication Technology and Policy (2010) and Economic and Social Issues in Advertising and PR (2013).

He had his first break in the Nigerian media in Concord Newspapers in 1990 and today, he has over two and half decades experience earned in several newspapers.

He has been part of many start-ups, such as The Republic (1987), The Comet (1999), The Anchor 2001 – 2002; Sun Newspapers (2003); Westerner newsmagazine (2005 – 2010) as Editor; National Life (2011) as Sunday Editor, and Newswatch Newspapers (2012- 2016) as Daily Editor.

Dele Fashomi is now the Publisher/Editor-in-Chief of Newstide247.com newspaper online, which he started in July 2015. He is also into biography writing, with many books in his trail, some of which he wrote alone and one he co- authored with his mentor, Mr Dare Babarinsa, entitled: Olabiyi Durojaiye – DARE TO BE DiFFERENT. He also guided and collaborated with Pa Olatunji Odusanya in writing his autobiography – AGAINST ALL ODDS. There are many other books in the works under his pen.

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