Efforts afoot to check population growth: Dr Zafar Mirza.

ISLAMABAD -- Special Assistant on National Health Services Dr Zafar Mirza has said that efforts are afoot to check population growth. Addressing a seminar in Islamabad on Thursday, he said the people should also support government's initiatives towards that end. He said that the health and population sectors have been integrated at the federal level. He said family planning services will be made available to the people at the primary healthcare level. The special assistant said that a national task force on population has been established. He said its first meeting will be held in the next few weeks.

He said this task force will formulate a national action plan on population...