Spl camps for sterilisation

Blurb: Minister unveils population stabilisation fortnight

Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, July11

There is a need to raise awareness among public about the ill-effects of growing population and the burden it adds to natural resources, said Balbir Singh Sidhu, Health and Family Welfare Minister today.

He was addressing people during state-level celebrations to mark the World Population Day at Kisan Chamber, Mohali.

Kicking off a population stabilisation fortnight in the state, the Health Minister said the celebrations had been divided into two fortnights.

The first fortnight falling between June 27 and July 10 was celebrated as the awareness and mobilisation fortnight wherein the primary focus was on encouraging people to use family planning methods and informing them about the array of contraception methods available.

The second fortnight kicked off today focused on population stabilisation. During the coming two weeks, special camps would be organised in government health institutions state-wide to provide family planning/sterilisation services to persons who had pre-registered themselves in the awareness fortnight. Free of cost tubectomy and vasectomy operations would be performed.