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Chief calls for steps to check
increasing birth rate
Ajumako (C/R), April 19, Ghanadot/GNA
- Nana Effua Essiwah II, chief of Breman Essiam in Ajumako
Essiam Enyan District has said Government’s effort to
provide the citizens with the needed amenities will appear
to be inadequate if the increasing birth rate in the rural
communities is not placed in check.
She noted that teenage pregnancy was rampant and accounted
for the increase in the birth rate. He therefore appealed to
the authorities to take pragmatic steps to address the
situation.
Nana Essiwah said this when the Ajumako Essiam Enyan
District Directorate of Ghana Health Service launched a
long-term family planning programme at Essiam at the
weekend.
Members of the community, including market women, school
children and farmers were introduced to the various family
planning techniques such as male and female sterilization,
the use of Intra Uterine Device(IUD)and jadelle.
She called on the members of the community to do away with
cultural practices that cherished, adored and rewarded
couples who had the tenth child, saying these practices were
no longer useful to society.
Miss. Adriana de-Heer The District Director of Health
Service who launched the programme said it was noticed in
the area that most men have negative perception that, their
wives were indulging extra-marital affairs when they adopted
family planning practices and advised them against that
notion.
She said men who were against their wives indulging in
family planning were the very people who refused to accept
or frown on unwanted pregnancies and subsequently shirked
their parental responsibilities.
She urged the society to make family planning part of their
life to enable them to live decent lives and improve on
their standard of living.
Madam Esther Amankwa, the Public Health Officer in-Charge of
the District said the programme would be extended throughout
the District to help sensitized the people on the benefits
of family planning.
GNA
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