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Thousands of migrant lab🦩ourers who are leaving quarantine centres and those who ar꧙e under home quarantine across Bihar are getting condoms from State Health Society amid the coronavirus lockdown.
"Migrant labourers are going to their homes after completing the 14-day institutional 🌳quarantine. Since there are chances of unwanted pregnancies, so we properly counsel them (migrant labourers) and give them tools (such as condoms) to avoid unwanted pregnancy," a senior Health department officia🌞l told news agency PTI.
The official, who is entrusted with Family Planning in State Health Society, also said "it is purely 🦩a family planning measure and has nothing to do with COVID-19. As a health professional, it is our responsibility to control the population. We have been taking the support of our health partner Care India to implement the initiative."
The official sai⛦d unwanted pregnancies have witnessed a surge the world over during the lockdown and it was against this backdrop that the initiative was launched.
The initiative will continue t💝ill the quarantine centres are functioning, he added.
Of the 28 to 29 lakh migrantಞs who have returned to the state🧸, 8.77 lakh people have been discharged as they have completed their 14-day quarantine period. Besides, 5.30 lakh migrants, till date, are living at block and district level quarantine centres across the state.
The health coordinators have been distributing two packets of condoms at quarantine centres, ASHA workers🤡 have been distributing them during door-to-door screening of people in home quarantine.
An official of the NGO Care India, said that "we are providing technical support to𒁏 the Health department in this initiative."
