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Space in birth was essential for health of child and mother as well as for controlling population growth that was adversely affecting national economy, said additional deputy commissioner Shaheed Benazirabad Wasim Hamid Sindhu
NAWABSHAH, (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News – APP – ) :Space in birth was essential for health of child and mother as well as for controlling population growth that was adversely affecting national economy, said additional deputy commissioner Shaheed Benazirabad Wasim Hamid Sindhu.Presiding over a meeting of District Technical Committee on Population Welfare constituted under program Family Planning 2020, he said family planning is aimed not only at slowing down growth of population but also at ensuring provision of equal opportunities and basic facilities to whole of the nation.
Population welfare Officer Riaz Ahmed Shar stressed on need of mass awareness in this regard among people especially the youth and added that rapidly rising population escalating economic, social and health issues in a developing country like Pakistan.
Department of population welfare has established centers for mother and child health and family planning in every nook and corner of the province which provide counselling and medical facilities freeo cost, he said