Second Lady calls for increase education on early maternal care

The Second Lady, Mrs. Matilda Amissah-Arthur, has urged nurses and doctors in the Western Region to educate mothers on the essence of early maternal care, in order to avoid deaths and complications during childbirth; hence, to achieve the World Health Organization (WHO) target of zero percent in maternal death.

The Second Lady, Mrs. Matilda Amissah-Arthur, made the statement when she paid visit to the Tarkwa government Municipal Hospital in the Western Region.

Mrs. Amissah-Arthur commended the hospital staff for their dedication to provide healthcare to the people and for managing childhood illnesses and that her aim is to see that children are treated with good care because they are of topmost priority to their parents.

"Children are the future leaders and I am someone who believes in growing with the young generation in the area of health care delivery," she said.

She encouraged the doctors, nurses and the other staff to do more to ensure quality healthcare for children.

Mrs. Amissah-Arthur also took the opportunity to touch on the sanitation and environmental issues that have been a source of most of the cholera outbreaks in the country, so the need to keep our environment clean.

The wife of the Vice President, was conducted round the hospital by Mrs Vida Akoto Principal nursing officer at the children’s ward of the hospital where she interacted with some of the children on admission at the ward ,wished them Merry Christmas and a speedy recovery.

She also presented school bags with learning tools, fruits, and other assorted items, to the Children' and medical staff at the hospital.

The donation is in line with her commitment to improve quality healthcare delivery in the country.

Earlier on the Second Lady for her passion in helping the needy as well as for providing social services for deprived communities especially children presented library books and a set of computers each with a UPS system to the some selected schools in the Tarkwa Nsueam Municipality.

The schools were Dompim Methodist JHS, Tarwa Methodist JHS, and Bogosu Methodist JHS all in the western region.

Mrs. Matilda Amissah Arthur, a Professional librarian over the years has made constant effort at seeing that children, not only enroll, but also read and complete school and prayed that God will continue to assist in the noble venture: she reiterated the need for parent to stop the habit of sending their children to trade before and after school, since it does not allow the children to improve in their academic performance.

Donating the books, the Second Lady called on the teachers and pupils to make good use of the books by reading them as a learning tool to aid the children and called on the Head teachers of the various schools to use the computer for administrative work by capturing Data on student’s academic work and also student enrollment.

The Second Lady also took her environmental crusade to the school and educated the audience both school children, teachers and the chiefs the need to be clean and live in clean environment to avoid cholera.