Dr. Rafiu Isamotu, the Osun State Commissioner for Health, has disclosed that due to a lack of self-care and bad parenting, pregnancy among sexually active teenage females is on the rise.
Dr. Isamotu stated this in Osogbo on Thursday while speaking at a seminar hosted by the Federal Ministry of Health’s Public Health Department.
He highlighted that many sexually active teenage females became pregnant prematurely, with a high likelihood of obtaining illegal abortions, which could result in death.
“Others who eventually birth these kids lack the psychological and material conditions for parenting a child,” the commissioner stated. As a result of these circumstances, badly raised children to become a threat to society.”
Dr. Kayode Afolabi, Director of Reproductive Health, Federal Ministry of Health, who was represented by Remi Bajomo, Deputy Director of Reproductive Health, explained that self-care delivery was a new innovation that allowed women to take care of their health without the assistance of a health care provider.
Dr. Afolabi had emphasized that states and local governments had major responsibilities in ensuring that the word about the national standards on self-care got to rural areas, where it was desperately needed due to the huge percentage of people living there with poor literacy.
Dr. Adewale Adefalu, Country Coordinator, John Show Incorporated, commented that one of the self-care products provided through syringes might be administered separately.
He explained that it provided women of reproductive age with three additional months of contraceptive coverage, adding that the barriers associated with facility-based care such as cost, access, and stigma were removed from the process.
Ada Peter
