Apprentice mechanics advised against pre-marital sex

A sensitisation  workshop on the negative effects of pre-marital sex and unsafe abortion has been organised for apprentice mechanics in the Ejisu-Juaben Municipality in the Ashanti Region.

Addressing the workshop, a Deputy Director of Nursing Services (Public Health) of the Ejisu-Juaben Municipality, Mrs Mary Ampomah-Koduah, advised the participants to avoid casual sex to avoid unwanted pregnancies.

She said unwanted pregnancies resulted in unsafe abortion, which had been identified as a major contributory factor to teenage deaths in the area.

Mrs Ampomah-Koduah noted that most street children and abandoned children found on the streets were the result of unwanted pregnancies and mentioned some of the negative effects of unsafe abortion as infertility, severe bleeding and womb infection (scepsis).

She said there were specialists in the hospitals to offer counselling and guidance on unprotected sex.

The programme was an initiative of the municipal health directorate, the assembly and traditional rulers, with  Nana Akua Konadu, a representative of Asotwehemma, who was also the Ejisu-Juaben Mabaawahemaa, spearheading the fight against unsafe abortion and pre-marital sex among the youth.

By Joseph Kyei-Boateng/Daily Graphic/Ghana