Nyamira County Residents have been urged to adopt efficient better family planning methods to avoid unwanted pregnancies and control of births.
Speaking in Nyamira, the Chief Executive Officer Kenya Medical Education Training (KMET), Monica Oguttu said that according to the research her company did in the County, many people still preferred use of injections methods to control births and unwanted pregnancies.
According to her, there is need to change from what she termed as traditional methods and adopt the use of modern and more efficient method which had no side effects when compared to the injections.
The research conducted late last year targeted 28 facilities which offered healthcare services on maternal and reproductive health in the whole county in order to fund and equip them.
Oguttu stressed on the need to training of the women on better and efficient method of family planning after she said that over 90% of couples in the county, according to the research, used injections.
“Injections have taken lead on family planning methods in Nyamira and we could like introduce the use of IUCD coils and implants as they have been tested and found to be most efficient than the pills and injections,” she concluded.
She however urged the expectant mothers to go through monitoring for the 9 months to avoid the primary cause of still birth where she indicated that 385 cases of still births are recorded from every 100,000 deliveries.