Among the women’s health activities we have in the clinic we include doing the prenatal controls (evaluating the women’s blood pressure, glucose and hemoglobin levels, doing speculoscopy and treating vaginal or urinary tract infection, etc), doing promotion for family planning (use of condoms, hormonal implants, oral contraceptives or IUDs) and realization of preventive methods for cervical cancer such as visual inspection with acetic acid. If the patient decides to start planning and the chosen method is the IUD, both medical doctors are trained to place and remove them.
Since 2017, Fundación Educa Pueblo-Viejo counts with a family planning program for the community, as our doctors and in alliance with the organization Pasmo are certified in family planning, we believe that reproductive health is the first step in the fight against poverty, chronic malnutrition, maternal and child mortality and gender inequality. With their support, we organize once every 2 months the “family planning day” in which we place IUDs and realize the visual inspections with acetic acid to the women for free. If there is an abnormal result in the study, we refer the patient to the appropiate place in order to confirm the diagnose.
Objectives of the family planning program:
- Give indigenous and rural women and men the opportunity of family planning. Family planning is the key to reducing unsustainable population growth and its negative effects on the economy, the environment and national and regional efforts to achieve development.
- Achieving the impact on health, wellbeing well being and empowerment of women.
- Preventing pregnancy-related health risks in women.
- Give women the ability to decide if she wants to be pregnant and at what time and the number of children they wish to have.
- Postpone pregnancies in teenagers, young women to avoid the risk of dying from premature procreation. The children of adolescents have higher rates of neonatal mortality.
- Prevention of HIV and AIDS: Reduces the risk of unwanted pregnancies in HIV-infected women.
- Prevents unwanted pregnancies, including those of older women, for whom the risks associated with pregnancy are greater. Women with more than four children have been found to be at an increased risk of maternal death.
- There will be family planning missions once a month.
- DIU insertion and contraceptive methods will have a low cost.
Progress:
- The progress will be through electronic and written records that will be taken in the family planning program, making a regular analysis of the results with follow-up of each patient to determine the impact on the community.
Schedule:
- Patients are seen from 7:00-12:00 am Monday to Friday.
Activities:
Our doctors certified in family planning, focus on the following aspects:
- Patient Care.
- Visits and talks to parents and patients in general.
- Planning, promotion, and development of activities related to family planning for specific groups.
- IUD insertion in patients who request it as well as any other a contraceptive measures.