Couples advised to adopt family planning methods

Ms Theresa Dakora, a Deputy Director of the Ghana Health Service (GHS), has appealed to couples to adopt family planning methods to enhance the country’s health delivery system.

She said the high rate of unsafe abortion resulting in the death of women, diseases, unwanted pregnancies and the increasing population were as a result of unplanned families.

Ms Dakora said this at a Family Planning day celebration at Asubone Rail in the Kwahu West Municipality on Thursday.

The celebration, which was under the theme; “Family Planning Promotion and prolonging life of Mothers and Children” was sponsored by the Korean International Corporation Agency (KOICA), Plan Parenthood Federation of Korea (PPFK), the Ministry of Health (MOH) and the Ghana Health Service.

Ms Dakora said 204 cases of abortion were recorded in the Kwahu West Municipality between January and September out of which 196 were induced.

She said family planning reduces poverty, pregnancy complications and improve the health of the children.

Source: GNA