During a meeting on Tuesday in Kampala to review the distribution strategy of family planning services, officials revealed that some facilities receive supplies when they have a short time to expire whereas others receive incomplete sets of commodities for instance implants without insertion and removal kits.
Anna Grace Auma, the project coordinator and a lecturer at Lira University explains that pre-service training will not only help in equipping doctors and midwives but also cut the cost of in-service training which has been high and time consuming.
According to the health ministry, an increase in the number of men opting to get vasectomies as family planning method has been noted. The increase is being noted in mostly the Western and Central part of the country