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MEDICAL AND PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICES
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FAMILY PLANNING
With the country facing the problem of acute food shortage and with the prospect of raising national income being offset by the rise in population, the family planning programme has assumed great importance in this context. A great emphasis has now come to be laid upon family planning and the movement for family planning has assumed greater momentum in the district as elsewhere in the State. Various measures have been initiated to chek the growth of population in the district.
Family planning campaign was started in the district with the establishment of an independent unit for sterilization as a positive method for population control. There were in 1963, two urban and 15 rural centres for rendering advice, distributing contraceptives and performing operations in the district. One mobile vasectomy unit was established with a view to performing vasectomy operations During 1967 there were 90 family planning sub-centres in the district.
The campaign of performing operations was intensified by getting close co-operation of the community development block personnel for carrying out propaganda pertaining to the advantages of the operations and by holding large number of camps in the community development block areas. In 1961, 30 camps were held and operations were performed in respect of 859 persons; in 1962, 35 camps were held and operations were performed in respect of 700 persons and in 1963, 71 camps were held and 1,467 operations were performed [During 1973-74 there were 16 centres. The No. of sterilisations performed was 2,894.]. Operations involving tubectomy and vasectomy, were also performed in these camps.
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