The Tema Metropolitan Health Directorate on Tuesday urged parents and teachers in the Metropolis to teach children the proper way of wearing and disposal of the face masks.
The Ghana News Agency at Tema has observed during a reconnaissance mission to most schools that children in the Metropolis often removed their masks or put them under their chin some on their school compound and others returning home from school dropped it along the streets.
Meanwhile Mr Samuel Atuahene Antwi, Tema Metropolitan Nutritionist speaking to mothers during the 2021 annual Child Health Promotion week at Kpotame a suburb of Tema Manhean said it was worrying to see the way some children and pupils handled their face masks.
Some adolescents in the Tema Metropolis on Monday disclosed that the fear of contracting COVID-19 prevented them from accessing family planning services last year.
Some adolescents told the Ghana News Agency at Tema that even though they used to patronize family planning clinics, they decided not to go for renewal for fear of contracting COVID-19.
“I did not come for the service because I was scared of contracting COVID-19 as I heard that some nurses and doctors at the hospital had been infected with the virus,” 17-year-old Nana Ama told the GNA.
Another adolescent girl said, “I was unable to see my boyfriend because of the restrictions especially during the lockdown and I, therefore, decided to abstain and not go for the family planning”.
The Tema Metropolitan Health Directorate on Monday said anaemia among pregnant women in the Metropolis reduced by six per cent in 2020.
It recorded 21.7 per cent anaemia cases among pregnant women at their first visit to the Ante-Natal Clinic (ANC) last year as compared with the 27.7 per cent in 2019.
Mr Samuel Atuahene Antwi, the Tema Metropolitan Nutritionist, disclosed this in an interview with the Ghana News Agency (GNA) in Tema.
He said while Tema North had the highest anaemia cases of 29.5 per cent; Manhean, a suburb of Tema, recorded the lowest of 14.5 per cent, whereas Community One and Tema South recorded 29.5 and 21.8 per cent, respectively.
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