Speakers at a consultative dialogue here on Tuesday stressed
the need for formulating a specific policy in consultation with all
stakeholders to address the health issues of adolescent girls and young
mothers.
The dialogue titled ‘Improved maternal and neonatal health (MNH) and sexual reproductive health (SRH) policy and practice for adolescent girls and young mothers’ was organised by Khyber Pakhtunkhwa chapter of Rahnuma Family Planning Association of Pakistan (RFPAP).
The women members of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly, Zarka Bibi, Uzma Khan and Mehr Sultana, RFPAP vice president Haji Sattar Gul, regional programme manager Gohar Zaman, Sohail Iqbal and Yasrab Nazir spoke on the occasion.
They stressed the need for enhancing capacity building on maternal and neonatal and sexual reproductive health issues to decrease the growing mortality rate of mothers.
The representatives of non-governmental organisations, members of civil society and officials of relevant government departments attended the dialogue.
The participants indicated that most of issues related to MNH and SRH among adolescent girls and young mothers were caused owing to untrained female medical staffs that led to increase in morality and morbidity ratio in the province.
Most of them said that they were unsatisfied with the performance of parliamentarians for enacting laws regarding child marriage and health related issues of adolescent girls and mothers.
They demanded proper execution of relevant laws to protect basic right of children, especially girls, in the society.
Gohar Zaman said that needs of adolescent girls and young mothers were grossly neglected at policy level that led to the worst social indicators in the South Asian region that included low female literacy, high infant mortality rate, high maternal mortality rate and low contraceptive prevalence rate.
Yasrab Nazir said that initiative would be taken to plug the policy and practice gaps at national, provincial and district levels for addressing SRH and MNH issues by mobilising policymakers and stakeholders.
MPAs Zarka Bibi, Uzma Khan and Mehr Sultana assured the participants that they would soon table a bill regarding adolescent girls and young mothers to cater to their health needs at all levels.
They expressed the hope that the bill would be passed unanimously with support of other members of the provincial assembly.
The dialogue titled ‘Improved maternal and neonatal health (MNH) and sexual reproductive health (SRH) policy and practice for adolescent girls and young mothers’ was organised by Khyber Pakhtunkhwa chapter of Rahnuma Family Planning Association of Pakistan (RFPAP).
The women members of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly, Zarka Bibi, Uzma Khan and Mehr Sultana, RFPAP vice president Haji Sattar Gul, regional programme manager Gohar Zaman, Sohail Iqbal and Yasrab Nazir spoke on the occasion.
They stressed the need for enhancing capacity building on maternal and neonatal and sexual reproductive health issues to decrease the growing mortality rate of mothers.
The representatives of non-governmental organisations, members of civil society and officials of relevant government departments attended the dialogue.
The participants indicated that most of issues related to MNH and SRH among adolescent girls and young mothers were caused owing to untrained female medical staffs that led to increase in morality and morbidity ratio in the province.
Most of them said that they were unsatisfied with the performance of parliamentarians for enacting laws regarding child marriage and health related issues of adolescent girls and mothers.
They demanded proper execution of relevant laws to protect basic right of children, especially girls, in the society.
Gohar Zaman said that needs of adolescent girls and young mothers were grossly neglected at policy level that led to the worst social indicators in the South Asian region that included low female literacy, high infant mortality rate, high maternal mortality rate and low contraceptive prevalence rate.
Yasrab Nazir said that initiative would be taken to plug the policy and practice gaps at national, provincial and district levels for addressing SRH and MNH issues by mobilising policymakers and stakeholders.
MPAs Zarka Bibi, Uzma Khan and Mehr Sultana assured the participants that they would soon table a bill regarding adolescent girls and young mothers to cater to their health needs at all levels.
They expressed the hope that the bill would be passed unanimously with support of other members of the provincial assembly.
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