Health Dept asks men to aid in family planning efforts

With the aim of controlling the continuously increasing population, the Health Department has organised a programme under the theme, “Healthy and Happy Family, This Dream Will Come True Only with the Participation of Men”. A campaign is being run to make people aware of family planning.

In this regard, Civil Surgeon Dr Rajesh Garg held a special meeting with the District Programme Officers on Friday and gave the necessary guidelines. The Civil Surgeon said that to increase the participation of men in family planning, a sterilisation fortnight is being celebrated from November 21. This fortnight has been divided into two parts.

In the first part, from November 21 to November 27, public awareness will be created and in the second part, from November 28 to December 4, sterilisation operations will be performed.

Civil Surgeon Dr Rajesh Garg said that family planning can increase happiness in households because if there is no gap of at least three years between the births of children, then it has a negative impact on the health of women, and at the same time, the children cannot be nurtured properly. In view of this, a gap of three years should be kept between children and permanent means of family planning should be adopted after two children. He appealed to the people to get information about permanent and temporary means of family planning from government hospitals or health workers and take advantage of them.

District Family Welfare Officer Dr Raman Gupta, while giving information about the sterilisation fortnight, said due to the government campaign, people have become aware of family planning, but it is still considered to be the responsibility of women. That is why, the government is celebrating a special sterilisation fortnight, so that men also contribute their share in it.

In the first week of the fortnight from November 21 tp 27, health workers in the district are going among the people and motivating them to adopt permanent methods of family planning. After this, family planning services will be provided from November 28 to December 4. He said to mark the beginning of the sterilisation fortnight, a special family planning camp was organised at CHC, Kartarpur, today, in which 15 surgeries were performed.