Awareness Activities of SAARTHI- awareness on wheels under Mission Parivar Vikas continued in Niuland and Medziphema areas on August 22 and 23.
Dimapur, August 23 (MExN): Awareness activities of SAARTHI- awareness on wheels under Mission Parivar Vikas continued in Niuland and Medziphema areas on August 22 and 23. The IEC Section, Chief Medical Officer's Office, Dimapur in an update stated that the awareness activities mainly aimed to sensitise the communities on the various choices of family planning methods made available by the Government. The choices of family planning include both temporary and permanent methods.
The awareness emphasised on birth spacing method of family planning where a couple can decide the intervals of pregnancies and number of children they want by using temporary methods such as use of condom, copper T insertion, and contraceptive pills, the CMO office stated. The beneficiaries were also informed that all family planning methods were available free of cost in all government health centers. During the awareness campaign, IEC materials, condoms and contraceptive pills were also distributed.
