Akyem Ayirebi (E/R), April 27, GNA - The Akyemmansa District Co-ordinating Director, Mr Ashaley Djane, has tasked health professionals to intensify education on family planning especially in the rural areas.

Mr Djane said families would be able to take proper care of their children if they space births appropriately. He made these remarks at Akyem Ayirebi in the Eastern Region during the launch of a family planning campaign in the district. Launching the programme, Mr Kwaku Due Oyinka, the Regional Health Services Administrator, said instead of having so many children who could not be properly taken care of thereby becoming wayward, it would be better to have a few who would not suffer deprivation. He advised men who already had children to have the courage to go for vasectomy.

The Birim North district director of Health Services, Mr Tei Djangmah, said family planning was a key to a healthy and happier home. The Ayirebihene, Obrempong Gyapire Agyakum II, who is also the Nifahene of the Akyem Kotoku Traditional, said there was an increase in teenage pregnancy cases in the district and called on the sexually active youth to practice family planning.