The Ministry has therefore directed the Department of Social Welfare to get in touch with the family to get first hand information of the children since it would enable the Ministry to know the kind of help to offer them.
The Deputy Minister of Employment and Social Welfare, Antwi-Boasiako Sekyere revealed this in an interview with Asempa News on Friday.
The pro vita Specialist Hospital in Tema chalked up another feat by helping a 34-year-old trader, Mrs. Stella Obeng-Sakyi, to be delivered of quintuplets.
Mrs. Obeng-Sakyi had, for seven years, been looking for a baby after her marriage to Mr. Alex Obeng-Sakyi, an employee of the Cocoa Marketing Company (CMC) in Takoradi.
Through in-vitro fertilisation (IVF) embryo transfer, two boys and three girls were delivered by Dr Joe Mainoo, the Medical Director of the hospital, on May 9, 2011.
The Minister explained that, those who give birth to one child at a time even find it difficult to cater for the child and so it was proper that parents who have up to five at a go, are given the needed assistance.
Mr. Antwi-Boasiako added that the children, even though were born by the couple, they now belong to the society, hence the need for the government to offer some assistance.
Story: Kwaku Antwi-Otoo/Asempa News/Ghana
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