“There is need for a door-to-door campaign to enlighten them that COVID-19 should not prevent them from spacing of their children.”
Medical practitioners have raised the alarm that the COVID-19 lockdown in Bauchi State is preventing some women from accessing the public health facilities for family planning services, which they fear might increase the number of unplanned pregnancies.
She said: “Imagine where you have about 100 of them coming for consultation and services, which has sharply reduced to about 30 people. Some of them require that their insertion be changed and for those on drugs, they will need more, but when these are not done, they automatically become pregnant with unplanned children.
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