On Monday, Rep. Edcel Lagman of Albay 1st District has urged the government to extend free reproductive health supplies and services to every couple from each sector as the country remains under enhancing community quarantine due to the pandemic coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19).

According to Lagman, every spouses and partner need to get themselves contraceptives and other effective methods of family planning to prevent unplanned, unwanted and high-risk pregnancies amid the Luzon-wide lockdown.

He said, “As intimacies between couples who are locked down together break the barriers of social distancing, the Reproductive Health Law or R.A. No. 10354 gains more relevance today.”

“Drug stores and pharmacies must have adequate stocks of contraceptives and other RH supplies for those who could afford to buy reproductive health products.”

Contraceptives are certified by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) that are essential medicines under the Philippine National Drug Formulary System which is under the Reproductive Health Law.

Lagman said, “I urge the government to continue discharging its mandate of extending free reproductive health supplies and services to acceptors from the marginalized sectors.”

In the Philippines, there is now a total of 3,246 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the country.

Nearly 1.3 million cases of coronavirus were recorded worldwide. And the death toll reaches 70,000.

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