Lafia – Dr Rahila Dadat, a Physician at Kowa Clinic, Lafia, Nasarawa state, on Friday said poor enlightenment was a major factor why some women in the state had refused to embrace family planning.
Dadat told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lafia that the information and enlightenment offered by healthcare providers and stakeholders on family planning were grossly inadequate.
She observed that this had resulted in some women in the state developing a skeptical attitude towards reproductive health methods.
According to the physician, family planning talks should not end in the four corners of a health centre, as some women forget about it as soon as they leave the hospital premises.
She said that some women even reject it outrightly.
“We must find a sustainable way of taking enlightenment from the hospital and taking it to their homes so that they do not forget easily about it.
“You know some of our people here are conservative and family planning is a sensitive procedure.
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“So, we must invent a way of enlightening these women and their spouses constantly, that it is not life threatening but a way of spacing child birth for the overall benefit of the family,’’ Dadat explained.
She urged women in the state to embrace family planning so as to have more quality time and resources for their children.
Dadat listed the various types of family planning methods to include barrier, hormonal method, Intra Uterus Contraceptive (IUC), bilateral tubal ligation (permanent method) and natural method.
The physician, however, cautioned that there were certain diseases that were not compatible with some family planning methods.
“I advise women who have diabetes, kidney problems and who are obese and hypertensive to avoid using the hormonal method,’’ she said.
Dadat outlined some benefits of family planning as management of family size, reduction in unwanted and ill-timed child bearing and promotes love in a family as unwanted pregnancy will not be an issue. (NAN)