The Sustainable Poverty Eradication and Development Association (SPEDA) a community-based organisation (CBO) has intensified public education and sensitisation on the health aspect of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), which is a blue print by countries and development institutions to improve the condition of living.
SPEDA is a focal partner for co-ordinating and monitoring the implementation of the goals in the Komenda-Edina-Equafo-Abirem (KEEA) one of the three districts implementing the MDGs in the country. The other districts are Afram Plains and Bongo.
The programme is aimed at reducing child and maternal mortality by two-thirds and three-quarters respectively by 2015 and to halt the spread of HIV/AIDS and malaria by the same period.
Alliance for Reproductive Health Rights (ARHR), a network of non-government organisations (NGOs) is championing the campaign on the health aspect with funds from CORDIAD, a donor agency, while the United Nations is providing the funds for SEND Foundation, the Christian Council of Ghana and the National Catholic Secretariat.
Addressing an education and sensitisation programme at Kokwaado, near Komenda, Mr Fred A. Mensah, Chairman of the CBO said they had targeted 500 people in five communities in the KEEA within a period of three months.
The communities are Dompoase, Enyinase/Abakano, Abreshia, Kwahenkrom and Kokwaado.
Mr Mensah expressed concern about the high rate of child and maternal mortality in the country despite efforts by agencies of the United Nations and other donor partners.
He advised pregnant women and mothers to attend anti-natal and post-natal clinics and to present their children for immunization.
The Chairman of the CBO advised pregnant women and mothers of children below five years to use the treated mosquito net.
Pregnant women should also report early at health facilities immediately they saw signs of labour, he advised and cautioned against relying on untrained birth attendants.
Source: GNA
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