The Commission on Population in Eastern Visayas emphasizes informed choice and voluntarism to ensure quality in the delivery of Responsible Parenthood and Family Planning programs and services, an official said.
PopCom-8 Regional Director Elnora R. Pulma said this is part of the government’s reproductive health agenda and as espoused in the Responsible Parenthood and Reproductive Health Act of 2012.
These are the subjects in a training of trainors held this week in Tacloban City. PopCom has partnered with the Department of Health and VisayasHealth-EngenderHealth for the activity.
Pulma added that the training will enable population workers all over the region in helping clients make voluntary and informed choices.
These will be based on accurate, balanced and complete information through appropriate counseling.
DOH Administrative Order 2011-0005 defines ICV as a standard in the delivery of family planning services, ensuring that clients freely make their own decision based on accurate and complete information on a broad range of available modern family planning methods, and not by any special inducements or forms of coercion or misinterpretation.
Pulma also stressed that the implementation of ICV was highlighted in the implementing rules and regulation of the RH Law. “Healthcare providers are responsible for ensuring that an FP client makes a voluntary and informed choice,” she said.
She added that the quality of care in FP requires that the rights of FP clients are safeguarded by service providers at all times.