Unsafe abortion is claiming the lives of more women and young girls in the country, accounting for 14 percent of all maternal deaths.<\/p>\n
Madam Georgina Addo, a Senior Midwife at the Obogu Health Centre in the Asante-Akim South District, said this was quite disturbing, and that, there was an urgent need to step up public education.<\/p>\n
[contextly_sidebar id=”EBmMLSz94ElFJef16Bzkz9Eqe9RYL2vn”]Globally, the World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that 47 million women perform abortion annually, with 36,000 of them dying.<\/p>\n
Out of the worldwide figure, 20 million are classified as unsafe and 98 percent of this occurs in sub-Sahara Africa.<\/p>\n
Madam Addo said the practice was not common among only teenage girls but married women, desperate to get rid of unwanted pregnancies.<\/p>\n
She was contributing to discussions at a public forum held to educate the people, particularly girls, on the dangers associated with unsafe abortion at Kumeso, near Obogu.<\/p>\n
It was organized by the Queen of Kurofa, Nana Yaa Ntidwumah, with support from the Centre for the Development of People (CEDEP).<\/p>\n
Madam Addo discouraged young girls from engaging in premarital sex to avoid getting pregnant and the resultant temptation to abort the foetus.<\/p>\n
She counseled that in the event of an unwanted pregnancy, the appropriate thing to do was to seek professional assistance to prevent needless deaths.<\/p>\n
Ms. Aba Oppong, Programmes Manager of CEDEP, urged parents to spend quality time with their teenage daughters to protect them from bad peer influence.<\/p>\n
They should be helped to focus on acquiring academic careers to ensure a better future.<\/p>\n
She denounced the high level of sexual activeness among young girls and said that should be a source of worry to everybody.<\/p>\n
Nana Ntidwumah reminded parents to live up to their responsibilities to their children by providing them with their basic needs.<\/p>\n
She told them that leaving the adolescents to take responsibility for their lives or fend for themselves, was risky and unavoidably corrupts their morals.<\/p>\n
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