Health
DR Ejike Oji, the Chairman, Technical Management Committee, Association for the Advancement of Family Planning (AAFP), has said that tubal ligation, a family planning option, is permanent.
He told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja on Monday that such family planning method
is good for mothers who have taken the decision to stop further procreation.
NAN reports that tubal ligation is a surgical procedure for female sterilisation in which the fallopian
tubes are permanently blocked, clipped or removed, preventing the fertilisation of eggs by sperm
and thus the implantation of a fertilised egg.
Also known as tubal sterilisation, a type of permanent birth control, tubal ligation is to stop the woman
from concieving.
Oji said “tubal ligation is a permanent option; it is mainly taken by women who have decided to stop having children.
“It is also good for women who have health challenges during childbirth or those who passed through many Cesarian Sections.”
The medical practitioner, who identified family planning as the key to population management, said “it is physiological.”
According to him, every family planning option is good, depending on the body of the woman taking it.
Meanwhile, some of the side effects of tubal ligation are bleeding from an incision or inside the abdomen, damage
to other abdominal organs, ectopic pregnancy (an egg that becomes fertilised outside the uterus and
incomplete closing of fallopian tube that results in pregnancy.(NAN)
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