A Mid-wife in charge of Adaklu-Kodzobi Community-based Health Planning and Services (CHPS) Compound, Mavis Amedzorku has described as hollow the belief that pregnant women with swollen legs would give birth to twins or a boy.
“That belief is excessively rash and should be disregarded”, she said.
Madam Amedzorku said this at the inauguration of an assimilation room for co-beneficiaries of the Survival Programme which is dedicated to promoting and ensuring the welfare of pregnant women and children under one year.
The project is funded by Compassion International Ghana, a child focused Non-Governmental Organization (NGO).
Madam Amedzorku said swollen feet during pregnancy was a serious medical condition, which if not treated early could have serious implication on mother and unborn babies and advised women with such conditions to seek early medical assistance.
She advised them to refrain from self-medication and take prescribed drugs religiously.
An official of Compassion International Ghana, Supreme Agbovi, said the Survival Programme should not be seen as promoting teenage pregnancy saying “the unborn child cannot be punished by the mistake of its mother”.
Mr Agbovi appealed to the leaders of the church and opinion leaders not to shield perpetrators of child abuses in their communities.
