ARMSTRONG ALLAHMAGANI, Bauchi
Married men in Ganjuwa Local Government Area of Bauchi State have demanded for more supply of condoms to help them in child birth spacing (CBS) in order to have a healthy family.
The Chairman, Ward Development Committee (WDC) of Kafin Madaki Primary Health Care Center, Mustapha Ibrahim, disclosed this while speaking to Journalists who are members of the Bauchi Public Health Media Network on the activities of CBS in the area.
He said: “We as a Committee, have embarked on serious awareness creation among the people and the programme has been well accepted, men now come out publicly to demand for supply of condoms to support their wives but unfortunately for now, there is stock out of the commodity here”.
Ibrahim said that men have come to understand that child birth spacing is important considering the economic situation of the country.
He added that the situation is very encouraging as mortality and morbidity rate of martanal and infant has positively improved in the areas.
He appealed to the Bauchi State Primary Health Care Development Agency to urgently supply the CBS commodities including condoms to the facility so that the clients can access the services.
The Deputy in charge of Primary Healthcare Center Kafin Madaki, Sani Usman, while giving an update on the services of the PHC, said that not fewer than 58 CBS clients were recorded in the month of October, 2020.
He however, lamented that the facilities in the month under review recorded out of stock situation of child birth spacing commodities
“In the month of October 2020, on the average, we had 23 new clients in one week.
“In the same month, we were out of stock but this is because of an increase in the number of clients we recorded,” he stated.
He pointed out that some of the challenges encountered with CBS services were with respect to minor undesirable side effects.
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