Nghi Loc: Responding to National Action Month on Population 2014

(Baonghean.vn)- On the morning of December 5, the District People's Committee, the Steering Committee for Population and Family Planning of Nghi Loc District coordinated with the People's Committee of Nghi Hoa Commune to organize the launching ceremony in response to the National Action Month on Population in 2014.

The National Action Month on Population takes place from December 1 to December 31 with the theme "Controlling population growth rate - for the rapid and sustainable development of the homeland"to promote the participation of the entire political system and the entire population in implementing the population and family planning policies of the Party and State, to enhance the responsibility of all levels, sectors, each family and the whole society about the meaning and importance of population and family planning work for the health and happiness of each person, each family and the sustainable socio-economic development of the country.

District leaders speak at the launching ceremony

In 2014, the population and family planning work in Nghi Loc district continued to achieve important results, the birth rate decreased by 1.6%o, the rate of births of the third child or more decreased by 1.3% compared to 2013. The communication and mobilization work was strengthened and innovated in both content and form. However, besides the achieved results, the population and family planning work in the district still faces many difficulties and challenges. That is, the work of reproductive health care for adolescents and young people still has many shortcomings, the results of reducing births and the rate of births of the third child or more are not stable, some party members and cadres are not exemplary in implementing the population and family planning policy, affecting the propaganda and mobilization work to participate in implementing the population and family planning policy.

Immediately after the launching ceremony, members of the District Population and Family Planning Steering Committee, population officials of 30 communes and towns, and officials of Nghi Hoa commune's mass organizations participated in a parade on provincial road 534 and main traffic routes to respond to the National Action Month on population.

Organizations and agencies marched in support of the launching ceremony.

As part of a series of communication activities in response to the National Population Action Month and the celebration of Vietnam Population Day on December 26, the District Population and Family Planning Center also coordinated with the District Women's Union and the charity fund to organize counseling on reproductive health care/mother and child/family planning for women of childbearing age in coastal communes; Coordinated with the Population and Family Planning Board and the Youth Union of Nghi Hoa commune to organize a forum on reproductive health care for adolescents and young people and prevention of social evils. The forum attracted the attention of a large number of people in the implementation area and neighboring areas./.

Thanh Hien - Kim Chung

Nghi Loc Population Center