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We had a chat with @Ronikpe  who answered our questions on the topic "Linkage between family Planning and women's health" You want to know why to space birth and not rush the child bearing process because you want to slay and get your figure shaprapraly again, you need to read this.   @Devcoms Dr Ronald Ikpe (medical). runs MRI Medic Consulting limited, a one-stop health Consulting outfit ( mrimedicconsulting.com ) with a special interest in general wellness  The impact of childbearing is directly proportional to the time interval of births. The lesser the spacing, the less healthy a woman is. We should realize that pregnancy is a physically and emotionally demanding process/journey for every woman-  "There is a need for a woman to recover fully before embarking on another pregnancy journey"  The process of birth or childbirth will not be complete without mentioning that it starts with the pregnancy itself, the jo...

                                                                                 by OLASUPO Abideen Opeyemi May 15, 2018 D ear Mr. President It is with a heavy heart that I sit down to write Your Eminence. As a conscious, patriotic and progressive youth, I could not help but register my dissatisfaction with my country’s plight alongside a volley of plea to your administration to rescue this dire situation. Excuse the curtness of my manners. The intensity of my pain has almost robbed me entirely of formality. My passionate plea is not for a personal gain but for a revision of government’s position on issues of health, poverty and education, the individual components forming the fulcrum around which our collective development and glory as a nation revolve. Sir, I read ...

 Participants during the A dvanced Family Planning (AFP) Media Advocacy Workshop in Lagos, supported by Pathfinder International (Nigeria), Lagos State Ministry of HealtH This statement was made by Dr S. Okaga ( Family Planning/Reproductive Health Coordinator Lagos SMOH) at a 3-days training organised for media personnels by Pathfinder International in Lagos.   Youth and adolescents need to be aware of their “Right to Health” which the media needs to help spread. Often times societal values, cultural and religion have served as barriers to the access an average Nigerian unmarried youth and adolescent have to reproductive health services. This in turn result to the poor judgement they demonstrate in their sexual life.  Dr. Okaga  also urged media practitioners to always approach her office for confirmation and clarifications where necessary and to avoid reporting  any misleading health information as health is a very sensitive issue. ...

The Igbaja Government hospital in Surulere, Lagos has a beautiful modern setting. The set up is so fine  it confuses you when you are in the facility and mosquitoes becomes your friend.  I was opportune to put to bed in this hospital.. Where the health care personnel's are smart and professional when they are not overworked and tired but.... It's not an exaggeration when I say the labour ward filled with pregnant women and newborns is riddled with mosquitoes....  Every contraction pain comes with slapping off mosquitoes....   After I put to bed I didn't close my eyes because I was slapping off mosquitoes from my newborn. We all know what mosquitoes can do to pregnant women and the detriment it can do to a newborn...  I put to bed and within the hour I spotted two mosquito bite spot on my newborn and I was literally begging to be discharged despite the weakness from birthing. My neighbor recently put to bed too and when I went to visit and I spotted m...

Justiceforchisom : The family of late Chisom Jane Anekwe (nee Okereke) and LEAP Africa Alumni are demanding for justice following her painful death at the Magodo Specialist Hospital. The young mother of two daughters died on April 30th, 2017, while giving birth to her third child, a boy after a prolonged labour. Sadly, the baby also died. According to her family members and friends, Chisom was abandoned and left unattended to deal with labour pains and other pregnancy complications. she was  laid to rest in Awka, Anambra State today, May 16. Yet another report of a needless death by a Mother at the point of childbirth. Annually, 36,000 Nigerian women die in the process of childbirth, with 69 children out of 100,000 dying in the process of birth As a pregnant woman in Nigeria, should we begin to write our will when it is time to go in for delivery in Nigeria ???? On the   # Justiceforchisomcase   . First of all there are some very important informatio...

After looking for a place to urinate for the fifth time in 50 minutes while doing some shopping at the main market, Bolanle knew it was high time to go and get some urine infection test done with the little cramps that comes with the urge to pee. This is not because of the "every 10 minutes urinating" but because of the unhygienic places she found herself using when the sudden urge to pee comes. She could recall a particular incident where she had to pee at a refuse dump after a visit to her local stylist salon and the sudden urge to go arose. Choi! If only she could carry her clean, well perfumed and sanitized home rest room around she will. Bolanle knew frequent urge to urinate is normal in pregnancy but what was not normal was the burning sensation and the foul smell that comes with it.   A chat with doctor revealed "Up to 10 percent of expectant moms will get a urinary tract infection (UTI) at some point during their pregnancies, according to the March of D...

Malnutrition often starts with a pregnant woman lacking all the right nutrients and vitamins the fetus needs to grow. As the baby’s organs properly develop during the first five weeks of pregnancy, a mother needs to eat balanced diet for if the child becomes malnourished in the womb, the damage can be permanent.  According to UNICEF 90,000 children could die in the coming year, amounting to almost 250 child deaths each day,  unless the international and local community takes swift actio n.   " The world produces enough food to feed every man, woman and child on earth. Hunger and malnutrition therefore are not due to lack of food alone, but are also the consequences of poverty, inequality and misplaced priorities. ” – UNICEF Deputy Executive Director, Kul C. Gautam . Evidence has proven that Family planning can directly and indirectly affect the nutritional status of women,children and infants.  A good nutrition can improve the health of a pregnant w...