[ 2014-08-17 ]

Three institutions collaborate to fight teenage pregnancy
Nkoranza, Aug. 17, GNA – The Nkoranza Municipal
Assembly in collaboration with the Ghana Education
Service (GES), the Department of International
Development (DFID) of Britain and youth
organisations has initiated strategies to address
the upsurge of teenage pregnancy in the
municipality.
These include the establishment of adolescent
corners, training peer educators, and forming
youth groups and clubs to undertake educational
campaigns to inform the people about the causes of
teenage pregnancy and the consequences.

Madam Winifred Tienaah, Nkoranza Municipal
Director of Health Services, announced this in a
report on Reproductive Child Health Care
activities and programmes at a meeting attended by
about 60 health workers at Nkoranza.

She expressed concern about sexual promiscuity
among the youth and warned that if teenage
pregnancy was not controlled it would have adverse
effects on teenage mothers and development of the
municipality.

Madam Tienaah said some girls between 10 and 14
years were becoming pregnant and, therefore, urged
religious and traditional leaders, assembly
members, civil society and stakeholders to take
the lead in the campaign against the challenge in
the communities.

She said there were 15 health facilities in the
area with Saint Theresa’s Catholic Hospital at
Nkoranza serving as the only referral point for
both the municipality and Nkoranza North District
and 208 Community Based Surveillance (CBS)
volunteers supporting health delivery services in
Primary Health Care and surveillance in the
communities.

Madam Tienaah urged pregnant women to register
with the health facilities to ensure safe
delivery, while women participate in family
planning to prevent unwanted pregnancies.

Source - GNA

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