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Ogun State House of Assembly
The Ogun State House of Assembly Committee on Health has pledged its support for family planning programmes.
This was as a family planning advocacy group, Family Health Initiative Ogun, received a nod from the committee for an increase in the government’s funding for family planning kits.
According to a Monday statement, the idea was brought to the fore during the group’s delegation visit, led by its chairperson, Oluwakemi Balogun, to the Assembly Complex, Oke-Mosan, Abeokuta, the state capital.
Balogun said that funds released for family planning programmes were inadequate, which occasioned insufficient family planning kits and consumables in the public health facilities in the state.
Balogun said, “In recent times, more families and women have realised the need for family planning or child spacing due to its derivable benefits. However, the state government needs to ensure proper budgeting and prompt release of funds for procuring kits, consumables and other necessary items that would enable women to get free and quality family planning services in all government health facilities across the state.”
Responding, the Chairman, State House of Assembly Committee on Health, Wahab Haruna, said the lawmakers placed a premium on the health of residents, noting that several worthwhile legislation pieces had been made to strengthen the health sector of the state.
Haruna assured the group of the Assembly’s support in promoting family planning and other healthcare programmes in the state, urging health workers to complement the state government’s efforts in the delivery of quality health services to the people.
Last year, the United Nations Population Fund donated family planning commodities to the Ogun State Government for distribution to primary health centres in hard-to-reach communities.
The commodities were presented to the State Central Medical Store in Abeokuta, the state capital, by the Maternal Health and Family Planning Analyst, Lagos Liaison Office of the United Nations Children’s Fund, Dr Akinkunmi Akinbajo.
