“I would like to encourage both the young, even the women of marriageable age, married women and religious leaders that family planning is safe.”
The state’s Commissioner for Health, Dr. Tomi Coker, who disclosed this while speaking with journalists in Abeokuta, the state capital, urged parents to encourage their children to visit the teenage units of primary health centres in the state for counselling and advice from health professionals.
She said that although introducing family planning to teenagers may be a difficult task because of religious and cultural inclinations, family planning is not only safe but also the best solution to unwanted pregnancy, abortion and maternal mortality.She said: “It is absolutely good to introduce family planning to our teenagers and teenage mothers who are already sexually active.
Besides, the commissioner, who insisted that parents must also introduce sex education to their children to prevent unwanted pregnancy, reduce maternal mortality and sexually transmitted diseases, said: “I have been very worried about the COVID-19 period because young individuals are out of school, they are not engaged positively, so they may end up turning to sex as recreation and that might lead to teenage pregnancies and loss of school years and life opportunities and even the risk of ending...
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