This is a common complain to lot of women who are taking family planning pills. It is easy to forget a pill or to be late in taking it. They should know what to do if they forget to take pills. If a woman misses one or more pills, she should follow the following scheme given below.
Key message here is “Take a missed hormonal pill as soon as possible.”
Incase of missed any nonhormonal pills, (brown color last 7 pills in 28-pill pack)
-Discard the missed brown color pill(s). (Do not need to take extra ones)
– Keep taking rest of the pills, one each day. Start the new pack as usual.
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He also serves as the chief coordinator for their kidney transplant programme. Rikaz is a life member of the Sri Lanka Medical Association and the Health Informatics Society of Sri Lanka. Rikaz holds a MBBS degree from Baqai University (Pakistan) and a Master's degree in Biomedical Informatics from the Post Graduate Institute of Medicine, University of Colombo. He also works as the Provincial Health Informatician for the Department of Health Services, Western Province.
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