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NGO uses drama to curb premature birth rate

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Integrated Youth Needs and Welfare (INTYON), a local youth-focused Non-Governmental Organization is using drama to sensitize community members on the importance of antenatal and postnatal care in order to reduce preterm birth among children.

The NGO ensures women and their babies have adequate health care before and after birth and also works to reduce socio culture believes in some communities in the Upper East region that prevent pregnant women from seeking health care.

On a day to commemorate ‘World Prematurity Day’ at Vea in the Bongo district, Executive director of INTYON, Chief Issah Ibrahim, said the NGO uses drama to cause behavioral change among indigents on some socio-cultural practices that tend to hamper health delivery and called on parents and the society to provide equal care for children born prematurely.

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According to Chief Issah the initiative is in line with one of the NGOs projects known as ‘Mother Baby Friendly Health Initiative (MBFI) which aims among other things to improve exclusive breastfeeding and as well improve facility based quality of care for both mothers and newborns.

Bongo district head of the department of Social Welfare and Community Development, John Azam, entreated men and families to assist their pregnant women in order to help reduce preterm birth rate.

World Prematurity Day is celebrated on November 17, every year to raise awareness of preterm birth and the concerns of preterm babies and their families worldwide.  

By: Joshua Asaah|A1radioonline.com|Ghana

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