Yobe family planning team preaches safe motherhood practices
The Yobe Family Planning Media Advocacy Team has called for increased engagement with stakeholders, including traditional, religious, and community leaders, to further promote safe childbirth spacing practices in the state.
Leveraging the 2025 theme on safe motherhood, the team urged stakeholders to continue collaborating to end preventable deaths and prioritise women’s long-term well-being.
A statement made available to Arewa PUNCH on Friday, signed by Ahmed Isah Abba, the Public Relations Officer of the team, on behalf of the Chairman, Mustapha Yusuf Musa, highlighted the partnership with national and international non-governmental organisations, including the Challenge Initiative.
This partnership has accelerated positive health indicators, including family planning, maternal, neonatal, and newborn health, among others.
The statement noted that “Yobe State’s collaboration with TCI has enhanced safe practices in childbirth spacing, with indicators showing increased acceptability of family planning among rural women.
“This is attributed to the availability of consumables at health facilities, health talks during antenatal care, medical outreach to rural areas by health personnel, and media advocacy,” the statement further explained.
Arewa PUNCH reports that every year, April 11, is celebrated as the Safe Motherhood Day, an initiative of the World Health Organisation aimed at providing women with the necessary care to be safe and healthy throughout pregnancy and childbirth.
This care includes antenatal, newborn, postnatal, intrapartum, and mental healthcare.
As the global community marks this important day, the Yobe State Family Planning Media Advocacy Team commended the Yobe State Government for its strides in primary, secondary, and tertiary health systems. These efforts have created the enabling environment that improves health indicators across the board.
The team commended Yobe State’s efforts in improving health indicators through primary, secondary, and tertiary health systems and its partnership with TCI.
This, according to the statement, will accelerate positive health indicators, including family planning and maternal health.
It further called for increased engagement with stakeholders to promote safe childbirth spacing practices and prioritise women’s well-being.
