Takoradi: Over 300 women who gave birth in Kansawrodo couldn’t afford clothing for babies

• Posted on July 9, 2021July 9, 2021
• by Nana Kwesi Coomson
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National President of Coalition of NGOs for Women and Children (CONWAC), Mrs. Abundant Hayford Aggrey has revealed that over 300 women who gave birth in Kansawrodo, a suburb of Sekondi-Takoradi in the Western could not afford clothing for their babies.

She disclosed this information on Skyy Power 93.5FM’s Jolly Breakfast Show with Kojo Brace on Thursday, July 8, making it known this is the current situation among nursing mothers in some communities in the country.

She indicated that even though some of these women are married, they claimed their husbands worked on contractual basis and most of the time do not get work to do.

Also, the poverty rate in this community is a factor leading to such situations and because of that, they have embarked on the maternal health reduction campaign.

Mrs Abundant revealed one of the efforts they are putting to reduce poverty rate in such communities is to connect the husbands of these women to companies seeking manual labour to work for them to get money to care for the woman and child.

Speaking on maternal mortality rate in correlation with poverty, more women are dying because they tend to abort their pregnancy with the knowledge that there will not be any money to take care of the baby whiles others do not get resources to take good care of themselves after child birth.

She also indicated that abortion is not the way to go if you accidentally get pregnant. She urged women and teens to do their best to keep the pregnancy because antenatal care is free or go to a pregnancy school and get sponsored through the health care process.