Husbands asked to understand, sympathize with their menopausal wives

Gomoa Lome (C/R) June 28 GNA-The Gomoa District Office of the Non-formal Education Division (NFED) in collaboration with a United Kingdom Society, Teaching and Projects Abroad are sensitizing some communities in the Gomoa district on some public health related issues. Issues being tackled include, teenage pregnancies, HIV/AIDS, menopausal symptoms and sanitation.

At one of such programmes at Gomoa Lome, on Tuesday, the Programme Officer of the NFED, Miss Emelia Turkson said menopausal women suffer a lot of discomforts including hot flashes, pains in the breasts, headaches, thinning of the vagina and they also become less responsive. While advising women experiencing the problems to see medical attention, Miss Turkson also advised husbands of such wives to have understanding and sympathy for them.

Miss Anne Hutchinson, a Medical Volunteer attached to the Winneba Government Hospital, a member of the Society urged couples to produce the number of children their financial position could support. Miss Vivian Laurens, a-23-year medical student of the Massachusetts University, USA, who was among the team was installed the Nkosuohema of Gomoa Lome, under the stool name of Nana Ekuah Esuon I for her meritorious services to the people.

The chief of the town, Nana Ayiredu Nyarko II, who chaired the function appealed to the government to provide the town with a Community Center and community library to enhance learning by school children in the area. 28 June 07