Postpartum family planning method decreases maternal mortality rate

Staff Reporter :
Discussants in a programme said that taking right and longtime postpartum family planning (PPFP) method decrease maternal mortality rate.
“We have to do work coordinately to save mothers lives in the country. If our mothers be saved from health risks and keep well, the whole nation would be kept well,” Saiful Hasan Badal, Secretary of Medical Education and Family Welfare Division of the Health and Family Welfare Ministry, said it while addressing a programme at the Pan Pacific Sonargaon Hotel in the capital on Monday.
The Secretary said it while speaking as the chief guest at the National level dissemination workshop on the project-“Accelerating access to Postpartum Family Planning (AAPPFP) in Bangladesh” implemented by Jhpiego-Bangladesh.
Director General of Family Planning Shahan Ara Banu presided over the workshop. Jhpiego-Bangladesh Country Lead Dr. Setara Rahman, Program Manager Mohammad Tariqul Islam, Family Planning Department Line Director Dr. Nurun Nahar Begum, among others were present in the event.
Saiful Hasan Badal said Jhpiego’s initiatives and huge contributions to make postpartum family planning methods access to the people of the remote areas are appreciable.
The Secretary said that if couples take family planning methods and wait more than two years for taking another baby it can avoid 30 percent of maternal and 10pc of children deaths. He asked all including public representatives, teachers and Imams on this field to avoid undesirable deaths of mothers and children in the country.
Public health experts and field level workers said in the programme that about 92 pc women want to take PPFP methods but most of them failed due to lack of availability.
They said only 0.7 pc women have taken PPFP methods across the country, while this rate is 12 pc under the Jhpiego-Bangladesh’s project areas.
Field level officials who contributed widely in the field have rewarded as PPFP Champions.
The Jhpiego-Bangladesh worked in the project since January 2019 to December 2022 in the slum areas in Dhaka and 20 hospital centers in Feni, Chandpur, B,Baria and Moulavibazar districts.
The speakers said the Jhpiego-Bangladesh contributed widely in the field of training to doctors and nurses, developping apps, creating awareness among the people through various programmes, and providing health services to postpartum mothers and kids.