Ahafo-Ano-South-East District Director of Health, Dr. Akua Afriyie-Bafana has expressed concern about increasing teenage pregnancies among Junior High School students in the district.
She has therefore appealed to the Ghana Education Service (GES) to collaborate with the Health Directorate to establish adolescent education groups in schools.
This she believes, will help educate the teenage girls on dangers of early sex and the need to abstain from it.
Dr. Afriyie-Bafana was speaking with GBC NEWS Correspondent, Thomas Nsowah Adjei at Pokukrom after the Directorate received Personal Protective Equipment from a local NGO, O.B Charity Foundation.
The newly created Ahafo Ano South East District is predominantly a farming area. The CHIPS compounds are not adequate to meet their health needs.
They depend on Mankranso and Bechem government hospitals as well as the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital for their medical care.
It is for this reason that Dr. Afriyie Bafana has appealed to government to expedite work on the new poly clinic which sod was cut last year but nothing is seen at the site.
Dr. Afriyie Bafana said the issue of teenage pregnancy calls for proactive action from all stakeholders to tackle it.
