The report, representing 27 Municipal and District assemblies, showed that whiles 477 girls went back to school pregnant, 214 had given birth. The Eastern Regional Statistics Officer of GES, Mr Godfred Dzeke, disclosed this during a review meeting of the Back-to-School Advocacy Campaign in Koforidua. He explained that all the 33 MDAs in Eastern Region recorded teenage pregnancies, but at the time of collation of the report, six districts had not submitted their reports. The Eastern Region recorded a total of 1,018 teenage pregnancies in 2020 and ranked the second region with the highest number of teenage pregnancies after Ashanti Region. She debunked the notion that the campaign would encourage more girls to get pregnant, adding, preaching prevention and abstinence were part of the campaign.

Source: GhanaWeb September 01, 2021 21:00 UTC