As efforts to minimize teenage pregnancy and maternal mortality in Liberia continue, the Officer in Charge (OIC) of Banjor Clinic, Madam Christiana Massaqoui, has urged parents to educate their children about the importance of family planning. She explained that “there are many cases of teenage pregnancy which is the cause of the high rate of maternal mortality. In order to minimize the high maternal deaths, parents should educate their children on family planning methods, Massaquoi admonished. “Family planning has so many methods which include implant which is to place medicine under the skin for 5 years, injection for 3months, and the pills which require to be taken on a daily basis according to time,” she said. He encouraged the family planning method which he described as very important for both sexes and used the medium to encourage women to practice what they learned from the outreach.

Source: Daily Observer January 11, 2017 00:48 UTC