Child health promotion underway in Nkoranza

Nkoranza (B/A), May 14, GNA - The Nkoranza District Directorate of Health Services has projected to capture about 24,500 children aged between zero and five to benefit from the child health promotion week programme to help combat infant morbidity and mortality. Mr. Richard Kwasi Hinneh, the District Director of Health Services, told the Ghana News Agency at Nkoranza that some health officials had been detailed to work in the 12 facilities in the eight sub-districts to ensure that parents and nursing mothers patronized the exercise. He described the programme as very important since the best way to ensure the growth of an individual was to monitor the person's life right from the first day of birth.

Mr. Hinneh said the health officials were reaching out to nursery and kindergartens to ensure that all children who fall within the range of the exercise were covered. The children are being immunized against the nine childhood preventable diseases and provided with birth certificates and child health record cards while others received Vitamin 'A' supplement and treated mosquito nets.

Pregnant women receive tetanus immunization and are educated on malaria and diarrhea. The theme for this year's child promotion week programme was, "Care for the new born, start right" and appealed to nursing mothers to patronize the exercise.