A family planning advert. Photo/courtsey.
The West Pokot county government has allocated Sh 10.2 million for family planning services to residents.
The money was allocated for delivery services, advocacy and community mobilisation and other family planning programmes.
Quoting the Kenya Health Demographic Health Survey of 2014, population and development regional coordinator Moses Ouma said one in every 10 women in West Pokot uses modern contraceptives.
Ouma said that family planning funds are vital in helping the high teenage pregnancy rates in the county.
He urged the county government to put at the top of its priorities money for family planning and reproductive health to help residents embrace child spacing so they can manage their families properly.