The Upper East Regional Director of Health Services, Dr. Emmanuel Kofi Dzotsi has revealed that in the year 2021, 43 per cent of the pregnant women who visited the various health facilities for antenatal care were anaemic.
At a media engagement organised in Bolgatanga, the Upper East Regional capital, Dr. Dzotsi revealed that in Ghana, one-in-two women are anaemic; a situation he describes as worrying and one that needs urgent solutions.
According to him, the Region has been struggling with a high prevalence of anaemia, especially among women of reproductive age. This, he said was so because most women and adolescents are not able to meet the required iron levels in the blood.
He stated, “in Ghana 42% of women are anaemic, and out of this number, 45% are pregnant women and 48% are adolescent girls, and this implies that for every 2 women in Ghana 1 has anaemia”.
“In 2021, 43% of our women reporting for antenatal care across the various health facilities in the region were anaemic,” he stressed.
He, therefore, advised women of childbearing and adolescent girls to diffuse their minds off the misconceptions and myths surrounding the intake of Iron-Folic tablets and take the advantage of the medicines which are available in the various health facilities to help reduce the prevalence of anaemia in Ghana.
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