Increase abortions among students in Volta

Dr. Geoffrey Nyamuame, Medical
Superintendent of the Volta Regional Hospital in Ho, has
expressed concern about increasing cases of pregnancy and
abortion related complications among students in the
region.
He said some female students lost their lives while
others had their reproductive system permanently
destroyed through the complications.
Dr. Nyamuame, who was speaking at the 56 Awards Day
of the Keta Senior High School, advised students against
practices that could affect their development.
The medical Superintendent, who is a past student of
the school, expressed worry that records from the
Psychiatric Hospitals in the country indicate that
persons below 18 years in the country were developing
serious mental problems because of the use of drugs.
He commended staff and students of the school for
the academic successes chalked and appealed to parents to
support teachers to discipline school children.
Professor Atsu Ayee, Dean of the Faculty of Social
Studies, University of Ghana, and president of the Old
Students Association, appealed to various year groups of
the school to donate cash and materials towards the
building of the Jubilee Complex before the school’s 60th
anniversary that would fall in 2013.
Mr. Dzidzeme Sedanu-Kwawu, Headmaster, said the
school that with a population of 1,689 students, had
achieved enviable successes in academic and non-academic
fields.
He said the Parents Teacher Association of the
school had started building a 240-bed capacity hostel
estimated to cost 150,000 Ghana cedis in addition to its
readiness to support 60,000 Ghana cedis biogas project.
GNA