About fifteen
(15) female students of St. Mary’s Girls Senior High School at Konongo in the
Ashanti Region are reportedly pregnant currently.
It is alleged that 25 teenage
pregnancies are recorded every month in Kpone-Katamanso
According to
United Television (UTV) news, four (4) of the pregnant students are in their
final year, ten (10) are in their second year and one (1) is a first-year
student.
Headmistress of
the school, Alice Martha Adjei reportedly confirmed the development and
lamented that it has put her outfit in a tight corner because she cannot expel
the students because of their pregnancy.
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They are worried
that if steps are not taken to address the trend of teenage pregnancy in the
school, the future of teenage girls would be in danger. Most of the students
are not able to return to continue their education after childbirth, and even
when they do, their attention is between studies and caring for the child.
Alice Martha
Adjei cautioned against grown men taking advantage of female students and
getting them pregnant and destroying their future.
Relatedly, about
21 abortions were committed by teenagers in the year 2022, with the Ashanti
Region leading, followed by the Eastern Region.
The frightening
development came to light following data released by the Ghana Health Service
(GHS).
According to the
data, 7,618 recorded abortions were recorded among teenage girls in
2022, translating into about 21 abortions each day of the year.
Last year’s
figure is a decrease of 10% from that of the 2021 figure of 8,465,
the GHS said.
Collectively, the
years 2020, 2021 and 2022 recorded a total number of 24,108 abortions
among teenage girls, with the average for the three years being 8,036 abortions
among teenagers translating to 22 abortions per day and about an
abortion every hour of the day.
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The Ashanti
Region which appears to have gained notoriety in recording high abortion cases
has again recorded the highest number of teenage abortions in 2022 with a total
of 1,275.
The region
recorded 1,407 and 1,531 teenage abortions in 2020 and 2021
respectively.
It is followed
by the Eastern Region which recorded 1,106 abortion cases, while the
Ahafo Region recorded the lowest number of teenage abortions with a total of
171 abortions in 2022, the data shows.
No wonder a
model of estimates for pregnancies and abortions released in the first quarter
of 2022 showed that some 266,000 abortions were done in Ghana within four
years.
The Guttmacher
Institute, the World Health Organisation and the UN’s Human Reproduction
Programme (HRP) released the first-ever model-based estimates of unintended
pregnancy and abortion rates for 150 countries, highlighting major disparities
in access to sexual and reproductive health care.
The study
analyses rates from 2015 to 2019, with the aim of providing deeper insights
into access to sexual and reproductive health services in countries of all
income levels across the globe.
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