A local Non-Governmental Organization operating in the Upper East Region, Integrated Youth Needs and Welfare (INTYON) is using drama as an advocacy tool for husbands to accompany their wives for Antenatal and Postnatal Care.
In some parts of the region, men who accompany their wives to seek health care are often mocked at by their peers. As way of changing the narrative, INTYON with funding support from UNICEF through its Mother-Baby Friendly Health Initiative (MBHI) is using drama to educate community members especially men on the importance of assisting their wives to seek health care.
Speaking to A1 NEWS at Adaboya community in the Bongo District, Field Officer of INTYON, Asasiya Asongba Francis said the community durbars and dramas have changed the perception most men had when accompanying their wives for health care.
“Most people think that if you are a man and you accompany your wife for antenatal care you turn to be a woman. But through this [drama] that we are doing it is going to change their perception that people have when it comes to wife, husband and child development”
An enrolled nurse at the Adaboya health center, Anabili Faustina said men in the community are now assisting their pregnant wives for antenatal care following the initiatives of INTYON.
“We now have a lot of men coming with their wives for antenatal and postnatal care, so gradually it is improving. It is only in the farming season that we don’t see most men do accompany their wives here”
Source:A1radioonline.com|101.1Mhz|Joshua Asaah
