{"id":463240,"date":"2018-02-10T12:09:36","date_gmt":"2018-02-10T12:09:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2018\/02\/10\/kumasi-makes-progress-in-reduction-of-teenage-pregnancy\/"},"modified":"2018-02-10T12:09:36","modified_gmt":"2018-02-10T12:09:36","slug":"kumasi-makes-progress-in-reduction-of-teenage-pregnancy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/02\/10\/kumasi-makes-progress-in-reduction-of-teenage-pregnancy\/","title":{"rendered":"Kumasi makes progress in reduction of teenage pregnancy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"medsection1\">\n<!-- End of html generated by this->header() --><\/p>\n<p class=\"floatLeft\">General News of Saturday, 10 February 2018<\/p>\n<p class=\"floatRight\"><strong>Source: <\/strong>ghananewsagency.org<\/p>\n<p>2018-02-10<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-left\">\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/46649579.295.jpg\" alt=\"Teenage Pregnancy1\" title=\"Teenage Pregnancy1\" width=\"295\" height=\"135\" \/><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>Teenage pregnancy is on a downward trend in the Ashanti Region<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"noPrint\">\n<div id=\"537626303\" style=\"width:300;height:250;margin:0;padding:0\">\n<p>\t\t  <noscript><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" name=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" src=\"http:\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/afr?auid=537626303&amp;cb=151125813973067\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\"><a href=\"\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/rc?cs=b2ad7fa7fd&amp;cb=151125813973067\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/1518264576_799_ai\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/iframe><\/noscript><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\"> Sustained adolescent health education campaign mounted by the Kumasi Metropolitan Health Directorate to help bring down teenage pregnancy is paying off.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Mrs. Alberta Biritwum Nyarko, the Metropolitan Health Director, said teenage pregnancy was down to 5.3 per cent, last year, from the 2016\u2019s 6.7 per cent.<\/p>\n<p>She announced this at the annual health performance review meeting held by the directorate to critically examine the challenges and the way forward to improve the quality of healthcare.<\/p>\n<p>It brought together health professionals and other stakeholders including non-governmental organizations.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Mrs. Biritwum Nyarko indicated that there was significant increase in family planning acceptance during the period.<\/p>\n<p>She said contraceptive use shot up to 15.8 per cent from the previous year\u2019s 14.7 per cent.<\/p>\n<p>There was however, an increase in maternal deaths \u2013 cases rose to 111 from the 2016 total of 66.<\/p>\n<p>She told the meeting that the institutional maternal mortality ratio grew from 211 per 100,000 births to 333 per 100,000 live births.<\/p>\n<p>She attributed this to increased referrals to the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH) from outside the Ashanti Region \u2013 Western, Brong-Ahafo, Northern, Upper East and Upper West.<\/p>\n<p>Still births, she said, were also up from 17.7 per cent to 20.7 per cent but expressed optimism that the inauguration of the state-of-the-art mother and baby unit, would help to radically reverse the trend.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Mrs. Biritwum Nyarko identified malaria, upper respiratory tract infections and hypertension as topping cases seen at the out-patients department of the facilities.<\/p>\n<p><!-- uploaded by: 50 updated by: -1 --><\/p>\n<p><!-- Start of html generated by this->footer() -->\n<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a style=\"display:none\" rel=\"follow\" href=\"http:\/\/megatheme.ir\/\" title=\"\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633\">\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>General News of Saturday, 10 February 2018 Source: ghananewsagency.org 2018-02-10 Teenage pregnancy is on a downward trend in the Ashanti Region Sustained adolescent health education campaign mounted by the Kumasi Metropolitan Health Directorate to help bring down teenage pregnancy is paying off. 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