Leadership of Parliamentary Network Africa has appealed to the government and the Ministry of Health to supply more family planning equipment to hospitals to help reduce rapid population growth,a problem the country is facing currently.
According to Mr. Godfred Bonnsh Nksnsa,a population growth expert, Ghana, is currently undergoing a hunge challenges which is the rapid population growth
He says it is time the government and the stakeholders laid down massive measures to reduce the rapid population growth the country is going through as the country’s major problem.
He said that most of Ghanain teenagers are sexually active, of which 61 per cent are from the Central Region, hence always feel like having sex which is the major factor of rapid population growth.
He stressed that,the there must be good policies and measures that should be put in place to guide Ghanain teenagers from engaging in unprotective sex that always leads to teenage pregnancy, hence contributing to rapid population growth.
According to him,one must also measure the number of children he or she must have to have,the key way of reducing population growth in the country.
Most of the rapid population growth is caused by the teenager between the ages of thirteen to nineteen, which proper measures must be put in place
Speaking in an interview, the program manager for Parliamentary Network Africa Mr. Gilbert Bokitsi Bio Fio during a day workshop at Cape Coast on causes and how to reduce rapid population growth appealed to the government to laid down policies and measures that will help reduce rapid population growth in the Country.
According to him,most of the Ghanain people are hitting poverty due to rapid population growth.
He said,as a matter of fact,there is a higher dependency ratio due to rapid population growth, so there is a need for the government to laid down proper measures to reduce rapid population growth.
The workshop called on all heads of department in the Central Region to share their views on how to reduce rapid population growth.
