Madam Salamatu Ibrahim, acting Director of Nkoranza South Health Services, has appealed to nurses in-charge of health facilities in the district to promote school health education programmes to enhance the health of school children.
She said they should visit schools regularly to educate the children on problems associated with pre-marital sex to guard them against sexually transmitted diseases, especially HIV/AIDS.
Madam Ibrahim said this when she addressed the nurses at their half year performance review meeting at Nkoranza.
She said since health officials were partners in quality education delivery, there was the need for them to collaborate with teachers in the upbringing and development of school children.
"As you visit the schools you can also give talks on personal hygiene as well as environmental sanitation and also study health problems facing individual children for proper medical attention", Madam Ibrahim said.
Mr. Charles Gyamfi, district disease control officer, said inadequate funds posed a major challenge that faced his outfit to undertake outreach programmes in the communities.
He mentioned buruli ulcer, onchocerciasis, yaws and intestinal worms as some of the diseases that afflicted the people and appealed to
non-governmental organizations and hilanthropists to come to the aid of the people to control the spread of the diseases.
Madam Christiana Akua Konadu, district public health nurse, said the people had embraced and were practicing family planning services.
She complained of inadequate supply of contraceptives for family planning and announced plans by the health directorate to establish
adolescent health services delivery centres.