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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Morobe Provincial Authority headquarters in Lae, Papua New Guinea
Photo: RNZ / Johnny Blades
Lae town, in Morobe Province has been placed in lockdown until Friday next week.
This follows a spike in numbers in Lae, Huon Gulf and Nawaeb Districts.
The Morobe Provincial Emergency Operations Committee issued an edict saying a No mask No Entry rule would apply to all government offices and businesses.
Bars, social clubs and gambling houses are closed until 19 March.
Hotels, motels and guest houses must comply with the various directives.
Shops and traditional markets can open but customers must wear masks, wash hands and sanitise before entering.
The PNG town of Lae has been placed in lockdown, Port Moresby's main hospital has restricted services and Bougainville has issued a 'new normal' edict as the country wrestles with Covid-19.
Photo: Miriam Schneidman With World Bank support, the government of Rwanda has developed a bold new approach to tackle stunting, chronic malnutrition, with an enhanced package of multisectoral interventions. As a result, there has been a significant uptake in health and nutrition services, such as growth monitoring and micronutrient supplementation, expanded access to early childhood development services, and reforms to community-based delivery platforms.
Challenge
Rwanda has made remarkable progress on infant, child and maternal mortality, meeting or exceeding most goals. However, stunting remained stubbornly high at about 38 percent in 2015 and affected nearly 50 percent of the poorest children. In 2017, the government made a high-level political commitment to drastically reduce stunting, recognizing it impeded cognitive development, educational attainment, and lifetime earnings and deprived the economy of critical human capital to attaining middle-income status. An