By Adekunle Jimoh
The Kwara State House of Assembly has vowed to join the campaign for safe family planning and child-spacing.
It assured that family planning and child spacing projects would be given budgetary allocation in the next appropriation.
Speaker Razak Atunwa said this while receiving members of the Urban Reproductive Health Initiative (NURHI).
He said government’s intention under the Vision 2020 may not be achievable without due consideration for family planning and child-spacing.
He promised to direct the assembly’s Committee on Finance and Appropriation to liaise with relevant agencies in ensuring the inclusion of the two issues in subsequent budgets.
The speaker noted that statistics on maternal health showed that only one in five pregnancies in Nigeria is unwanted, adding that it is alarming that about 529,000 women die from pregnancy-related cases.
He appealed to members of the NUHRI to go to the rural areas and ensure that the people at the grassroots benefit from the organisation’s programmes.
Earlier, the ex-permanent secretary, Ministry of Health, Dr. Funmilayo Ambali, who represented NUHRI’s chairman during the visit, had decried the high rate of maternal mortality and morbidity in the country and appealed to stakeholders to support the call for sound health for mothers and a well- planned family life.
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