{"id":142571,"date":"2020-11-22T01:30:09","date_gmt":"2020-11-21T20:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=142571"},"modified":"2020-11-22T01:30:09","modified_gmt":"2020-11-21T20:00:09","slug":"rally-underway-to-mark-vasectomy-fortnight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2020\/11\/22\/rally-underway-to-mark-vasectomy-fortnight\/","title":{"rendered":"Rally underway to mark Vasectomy Fortnight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>ITANAGAR, Nov 21:<\/strong> Bullet riders from various clubs of the capital started out on a motorcycle rally on Saturday to create awareness on the Vasectomy Fortnight.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Vasectomy Fortnight is observed every year from 21 November to 4 December with the aim of enhancing male participation in the reproductive health system. Currently, the acceptance rate of male sterilization, namely, non-scalpel vasectomy (NSV) is abysmally low in the state.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The rally was flagged off by NHM Mission Director CR Khampa from Hotel Waii International in Itanagar.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Before the flagging-off of the rally, Family Welfare Director Dr Emi Rumi spoke on the importance of male participation in family planning by adopting NSV, which he explained is a simple and very safe method of male sterilization.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Dr Rumi encouraged all the eligible men to make their contribution in the reproductive health system and not let women be the only ones to adopt various family planning methods.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Male sterilization is equally important as female sterilization, and is safer,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Bullet riders will be generating awareness among the people in different parts of the capital on the importance of male sterilization by distributing leaflets containing helpful information on NSV.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The flagging-off function was attended by the ICR DMO and the DRCHOs of districts, senior officers and staffs of the NHM mission directorate and the family welfare directorate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ITANAGAR, Nov 21: Bullet riders from various clubs of the capital started out on a motorcycle rally on Saturday to create awareness on the Vasectomy Fortnight. Vasectomy Fortnight is observed every year from 21 November to 4 December with the aim of enhancing male participation in the reproductive health system. Currently, the acceptance rate of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-142571","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142571","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142571\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}