According to the Health Centre, pregnant women in the community are continuously losing their newborn babies because the women drink water contaminated with chemicals used by the illegal miners. A Midwife in charge of the Sewum health Centre Gifty Adwoa Adjanor disclosed that the facility has been recording cases of newborn babies without nose, eyes, ears and mouth. The Midwife is thus appealing to traditional leaders and other residents in the area to support the renewed fight against galamsey to enable pregnant women to give birth to healthy children. Sewum is a cocoa growing area and also a notorious illegal mining community in the Aowin District of the Western North region. Meanwhile, the percentage of pregnant women being delivered by professional midwives in Ghana has increased to eighty percent.
