Edo
State health officials have decried what they described as the
explosion in the population of beggars in the state capital, Benin.
According
to the Director of Primary Health Care, Edo State Ministry of Health,
Dr. Casmir Amebenomo, during a one-day workshop on “Contraceptive
Technology Update for Technocrats, Managers, Service Providers and
Policy Makers,” organised by Nigerian Urban Health Reproductive
Initiative (NURHI), the development is worrisome and a source for
concern.
Amebenomo
expressed fear that “unless some drastic measures are taken to control
the high rate of population increase in the state, especially among the
physically challenged beggars along Mission Road in Benin, the effect
might become uncomplimentary to government efforts at improving the
standard of living of the people in Edo State.”
Commending officials of NURHI for involving public healthcare facilities in their family activities, he urged them to extend their services to the community of physically challenged persons in the state in order for them to benefit from proper family planning.
Commending officials of NURHI for involving public healthcare facilities in their family activities, he urged them to extend their services to the community of physically challenged persons in the state in order for them to benefit from proper family planning.
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