Hon Dr Micheal Bayiga Lulume Has Asked Men To Embrace Vasectomy To Reduce High Population Rate

Posted by: lukwago J in Uganda news October 1, 2021

Buikwe South Member of Parliament Hon Dr Micheal Bayiga Lulume has asked men to embrace Vasectomy in a bid to control number of children they produce so as to reduce high population rate in the country.

He argued that by having Vasectomy men will not be impregnating women every where.

Vasectomy is a surgical procedure for male sterilization or permanent contraception. During the procedure, the male vasa deferentia are cut and tied or sealed so as to prevent sperm from entering into the urethra and thereby prevent fertilization of a female through sexual intercourse.

“As a physician my best advice to men is to embrace Vasectomy. Its the only way to control high population rate and remedy for unwanted pregnancies especially for men who sleep around with women,” Dr Micheal Bayiga Lulume said.

Buikwe District legislator made the revelation at the consultative meeting of civil society actors, government officials and legislators in Kampala to gauge family planning 2030 commitments.

Dr Micheal Bayiga Lulume threatened to move a motion in parliament so that a law is gazetted to limit men to only three year in Uganda saying this will reduce domestic violence among married couples, promote peaceful families and reduction in high population rate.

Dr Moses Muwonge Director Samasha Medical Foundation in his presentation titled Uganda’s family planning progress and 2030 commitment noted that Uganda has faulted on the family planning commitments by failing to invest more into procurement of contraceptives needed by women and girls to control in wanted pregnancies.

“Uganda is far from achieving family planning commitments due to low investment into family planning services. Uganda needs to invest up to 150 million dollars but currently Uganda and development partners only have a budget of 50 million dollars per year for family planning commodities,”he said.

Muwonge said government of Uganda committed to increase modern contraceptives for women and couples from 30.4% in 2020 to 39.6% by 2025 and reduce unmet need from 17% in 2020 to 15% by 2025.

He reasoned that investment of this magnitude would help women to space children and have manageable families.

Uganda’s population growth rate is currently 3.32%. The growth rate has remained around 3% for the past several decades in Uganda. This is influenced heavily by the country’s fertility rate of 4.78 births per woman. At this growth, over 1 million people are added to the population each year.

Dr Betty Kyadondo Director Family Health at National Population Council proposed that government mobilises domestic and external resources to support implementation of the national family planning services to the tune of US295 million dollars for the next five years.

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