KARACHI, Feb 27: An organized and coordinated programme of population welfare can help achieve the targets of the Millennium Development Goals. This was stated by MNA Gul-i-Farkhanda, the chairperson of steering committee on population welfare, while speaking as chief guest at the orientation workshop of public-private sector organization project held at the National Research Institute of Fertility Control.

Ms Farkhanda said that the population welfare programme could be activated and made more effective by bringing together the population welfare organizations working at federal or provincial levels, non-governmental organizations and those in the field.

She said that all sectors should be provided adequate information according to their requirements and they be provided the benefits of the reproductive healthcare and population welfare.

This task should be taken up as responsibility of the society towards this very end, she added.

She called for fostering integration in such an approach to carry forward the objective of population welfare. She appreciated the holding of workshop and opined that it could help bring betterment in the lives of the people. She also emphasized the need of introducing human resource management in this regard. —APP