By Murtala Muhammad
Bauchi State Ministry of Health and Social Welfare, through the State Primary Health Care Board in collaboration with Implementing Partners has embarked on a sensitisation roadshow in Bauchi metropolis on safe use of modern Childbirth Spacing (CBS).
This is part of this year’s World Contraceptive Day, with the theme “A Choice for All, Freedom to Plan, Power to Choose”.
Family Planning Coordinator at the State, Primary Health Care Board, Maryam Mohammed Dahiru, said as part of the commemoration, the state with support from the Implementing Partners was offering free CBS services to interested clients in three local government areas.
Maryam Dahiru said disclosed that the CBS services being offered comprised all the methods, except permanent one which often requires surgery.
She said already the teams of service providers were in Dass and Bauchi offering the free CBS services since Thursday and would move to Ganjuwa local government area on Saturday for the same mission.
On her part, the State Programme Officer, Demand Generation Society for Family Health’s Delivering Innovation in Self-Care (DISC) project, Ms Joyce Asanato said this year’s theme emphasises choice as central in matters that has to do with pregnancy and childbearing.
She aligned the theme with the DISC project’s mandate of empowering women to take their sexual and reproductive health seriously by making informed choices and decisions concerning pregnancy and childbirth.
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