The midwifery Officer of the Oyibi Health Center, Franklin Sabla has charged pregnant women to seek immediate healthcare once they discover they are pregnant.
According to him, late antenatal care has contributed to child and mother mortality, emphasizing the need for the menace to be stopped.
Speaking in an exclusive interview with Max TV Morning Show in Accra on Tuesday, Sabla stated that there were myth surrounding pregnancies and had made many women seek antenatal care at a later stage.
”There’s a myth that once a woman gets pregnant, she has to seek antenatal three months afterwards and this has contributed to many complications,” he said.
Sabla indicated that pregnancy was a physiological endeavor that could have life threatening or fatal complications for the mother, baby or both of them.
”It is therefore very necessary that it should only be embarked upon with proper planning and supervision by trained professionals,” he said.
Sabla noted that some pregnancies formed at the wrong place of the womb and expressed the need for early antenatal care to help identify potential risks early on, allow for healthy lifestyle choices to be made, provide necessary education, and prepare the mother for labor and childbirth.
