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YEAR: 1975

CATEGORY: Contraception (Birth Control) and Family Planning

TITLE

Family planning and maternal and child health services.

AUTHORS

Singh A

SOURCE

Swasth Hind 19(12): 370-374. December 1975.

ABSTRACT

Considerable effort has been made in the area of family planning in the State of Punjab. Family planning personnel

has been recruited and trained at the State Family Planning Training and Research Center in Kharar; supplies of

Nirodh, IUDs, oral contraceptives, and hospital equipment along with transportation facilities have been made

available; and there has been some building construction. The State Health Education Bureau has worked to

produce publicity material and has also used the mass media to create awareness of family planning among the

people. As many as 120 rural and 49 urban Family Welfare Planning Centers are providing family planning services

along with 856 subcenters in rural areas. 1123 other institutions are also doing family planning work in addition to

the efforts of 34 mobile sterilization and IUD units attached to the District Family Planning Bureau and the

contributions of some voluntary organizations. Although the state has adopted the cafeteria approach to family

planning and the focus is on provision of family planning services on routine days in the various institutions to well-

motivated couples, mass family planning camps for vasectomy, tubal ligations, and IUD insertions have been held

with considerable success. Additionally, the State has integrated family planning programs with maternal and child

health care in order to provide a totality of service. This precedes the total integration of this national program w ith

general health services. Punjab has done well in achieving its targets for 1974-1975. Sterilization targets were set

at 38,300 and 36,460 sterilizations, 95.2% of the target, were performed. IUD targets were 27,000, and the number

achieved was 39,637 or 109.4%. The conventional contraceptive user target was 99,800, and 151,976 or 152.3% of

the target figure became conventional contraceptive users. (PubHealth.info Document ID: CONT7T 2560-06)

PubHealth.info NOTE: The author(s) of this article titled, "Family planning and maternal and child health services.",

is(are) Singh A. The source of this article is "Swasth Hind 19(12): 370-374. December 1975.". This article was

published in 1975 in English language(s). (PubHealth.info® Document ID: CONT7T 2560-06. All rights reserved with

PubHealth.info) PIN: 32560

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