The Wa Municipal Director of Health Services, Dr. Pascal Kinsgley Mwin has expressed worry about the increasing cases of teenage pregnancies in the area.
He said in 2019, the Wa Municipal Health Directorate recorded a total of 603 teenage pregancies during the first half of the year. The number then drastically reduced to 306 during the same period last year.
The number of teenage pregnancies recorded has however begun to rise again this year with the Wa Municipal Health directorate recording a total of 330.
Dr. Mwin said the situation could be attributed in part, to the COVID-19 pandemic.
He explained that due to the long breaks in the school calendar, some of the girls were put in vulnerable situations and were taken advantage of saying “many of these ladies were at home and once they were at home, their boyfriends and others took advantage of that by getting them to indulge in unprotected sex.”
Meanwhile, the Director of Health Service for Wa Municipal indicated that the area recorded a total of 210 cases of COVID-19.
Dr Mwin said over two thousand people have been vaccinated against the disease so far.
He added that due to stringent measures taken by the Service, only 20 cases of Cerebrospinal Meningitis (CSM) were recorded this year as against 34 last year.
On immunization , Dr. Mwin mentioned that the Service has exceeded all its targets for the immunization of diseases like Measles and Yellow Fever among others.
The Presiding Member for Wa Municipal Assembly, Karim Abdul-Rahaman Topie who spoke on behalf of the MCE for Wa, Issahaku Tahiru Moomen said that the Covid-19 Pandemic remains one of the World’s greatest threats causing havoc to human lives.
He said it has become the new normal for there is a need to adhere to the protocols to contain the spread of the pandemic.
Source: A1Radioonline.com| 101.1MHz| Mark Kwasi Ahumah Smith| Ghana
