SPECIAL REPORT: Before they could finish school, Nigeria’s health system made them mothers
To obtain the government’s position, this reporter submitted a Freedom of Information (FOI) request to the Ondo State Ministry of Health on 28 July, seeking records on family planning budget allocations, reproductive health commodity procurement and distribution, and the utilisation of federal primary healthcare transfers between 2023 and 2025.
The request sought records on family planning budget allocations, the implementation of the state’s proposed 100 contraceptive kiosks, commodity delivery records, and the utilisation of reproductive, maternal, newborn, child and adolescent health funds between 2023 and 2025.
He maintained that the state had trained more than 120 health workers on postpartum family planning over the past two years and insisted that contraceptive services remain free in government facilities.
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