Kwara state government has been urged to create a specific budget line for adolescent youth friendly health services across the state.
The representative of the Novel Association for Youth Advocacy (NAYA) in Kwara state, Mrs. Oluwatoni Adeleke made the call while speaking with Journalists in Ilorin.
According to her, the state government should put in place actions that are backed by finances to ensure a dedicated and sustainable funding to meet young people’s contraceptive needs.
Mrs. Adeleke said that adolescents are likely to take uninformed decisions about their reproductive health issues when there was no place established for them to get expert advice.
She called on the state government to set up and inaugurate the state technical working group on adolescent and youth friendly health services in all the 193 wards in the state.
In her remark the Desk Officer, Kwara state ministry of Health, Mrs. Omolade Gabi, said that the state government has put in place four centres for adolescent health matters in form of referral centres.
Ali Muhammad Rabiu