Family Planning Helps Better Population Management – Dr. Rilwan
By Tahir Muhammad, Dutse
A lecturer in the Department of Economic Management, Federal University, Dutse, Jigawa State, Dr Itar Abdul-RazaQ Rilwan has stated that family planing helps society to have better chance for population management.
He also said it will have better chance of resource allocation, achieving zero hunger, poverty eradication, enhance public service delivery for sustainable growth and development.
Dr. Rilwan made the remarks in a paper with the theme ”Family Planing/Child Birth Spacing a Critical Components in Population Management, Improving Maternal and New born Child Health, Growth and Sustainable Development” during a roundtable with Media and FP stakeholder’s and actors in Dutse.
He stated that timing pregnancy to create intervals between the birth of children improve the overall health and survival of the children and mothers in reducing high rate of maternal and infant morbidity.
The meeting which was organized and supported by TCI and DevComs, was aimed to scale up more strategies in promoting the concept of Family Planning through advocacy, public enlightenment and increased state government support.
According to him, children born after adequate spacing tend to have more access to maternal care which could also reduce the cases of malnutrition and stunting rate amongst cases Jigawa state have been battling to control.
“Family that are using child birth spacing tend to have more resources and time to cater for education, health, proper training and Inculcating moral discipline to their children for better upbringing,” he said.
Dr. Rilwan stressed the need for advocating to government to make Family Planing services accessible and affordable to all families and also embarks on public enlightenment on the health and social benefits of child birth spacing for achieving reduction in the high rate of maternal and child death in the society.
TCI representative Miss Blessing Muhammed said, TCI have been providing support in Jigawa state through four Symantec areas which includes, advocacy, demands generation, service delivery and research/monitoring/evaluation for government to achieve sustainable improvement in Maternal and New born Child x (MN CH) outcome.
“Our goal in TCI is to sustain improvements in urban health systems and increase the use of modern contraception. innovative approach to ensure leadership and government-driven programs to scale up, efficiency, and sustainability of FP programs,” Blessing stated.
Speaking on behalf of media working group in Jigawa State, Comrade Muhammad Zangina promised to join hands with government, partners and other critical stakeholders to support the improvement of reproductive health in all aspects for enhancing child survival and family wellbeing.
