City Desk :
The mass media could play vital role in creating social awareness for intensifying family planning activities to turn the programme into a social movement aiming to contain the population growth rate.
Health experts viewed this at an advocacy meeting-cum press briefing organised by District Family Planning Department (DFPD) at conference room of the Maternity and Child Welfare Centre (MCWC) in Panchagarh district town yesterday.
The event was arranged before observing the ‘Family Planning, Mother-Infant-Juvenile Health Service and Campaign Week-2016 from May 14 to 19 next in the sub-Himalayan district as in all unions, upazilas and districts of the country. Medical officer of Panchagarh MCWC Dr Mohammad Abdullah delivered keynote speech narrating objectives of observing the week with the theme of ‘Adoption of Post-delivery Family Planning Ensures Healthy and Descent Family Bonding.’
Panchagarh Sadar Upazila Health & Family Planning Officer Dr Afroza Begum, representatives of Merry Stopes Mohammad Afroz Zaman and Shafikul Islam of Family Planning Association of Bangladesh (FPAB) addressed, among others.
The health experts discussed about concept of smaller families, adoption of post-delivery family planning methods, safe motherhood and care for newborn babies, anti-natal care, nutrition, effects of child marriage and other issues.
Narrating the utter importance of family planning and the government steps taken towards the directions, they put emphasis on inspiring all able couples to adopt long-term and permanent methods of family planning for further reducing fertility rate.
In the open discussion session, Dr Mohammad Abdullah answered various questions asked by the journalists on the family planning activities being conducted in the sub-Himalayan Panchagarh district and success achieved so far. He urged the journalists for creating adequate social awareness through disseminating the important message of “not more than two children, but one is better”, among all able couples to make the government’s population control programme successful.
The mass media could play vital role in creating social awareness for intensifying family planning activities to turn the programme into a social movement aiming to contain the population growth rate.
Health experts viewed this at an advocacy meeting-cum press briefing organised by District Family Planning Department (DFPD) at conference room of the Maternity and Child Welfare Centre (MCWC) in Panchagarh district town yesterday.
The event was arranged before observing the ‘Family Planning, Mother-Infant-Juvenile Health Service and Campaign Week-2016 from May 14 to 19 next in the sub-Himalayan district as in all unions, upazilas and districts of the country. Medical officer of Panchagarh MCWC Dr Mohammad Abdullah delivered keynote speech narrating objectives of observing the week with the theme of ‘Adoption of Post-delivery Family Planning Ensures Healthy and Descent Family Bonding.’
Panchagarh Sadar Upazila Health & Family Planning Officer Dr Afroza Begum, representatives of Merry Stopes Mohammad Afroz Zaman and Shafikul Islam of Family Planning Association of Bangladesh (FPAB) addressed, among others.
The health experts discussed about concept of smaller families, adoption of post-delivery family planning methods, safe motherhood and care for newborn babies, anti-natal care, nutrition, effects of child marriage and other issues.
Narrating the utter importance of family planning and the government steps taken towards the directions, they put emphasis on inspiring all able couples to adopt long-term and permanent methods of family planning for further reducing fertility rate.
In the open discussion session, Dr Mohammad Abdullah answered various questions asked by the journalists on the family planning activities being conducted in the sub-Himalayan Panchagarh district and success achieved so far. He urged the journalists for creating adequate social awareness through disseminating the important message of “not more than two children, but one is better”, among all able couples to make the government’s population control programme successful.
