Dr Agatha Bonney, Bosomtwe District Director of Health Services, has said the country should embark on a conscious effort to promote reproductive health to enhance safe motherhood at all levels.
She said it was unfortunate that the nation, in spite of its 0socio-economic gains in recent times had been grappling with the pertinent issues of neo-natal, maternal and infant mortality.
Dr Bonney was addressing a community durbar in a speech read for her on Reproductive Health Supplies in the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) budget line at Worakese in the Bosomtwe District of the Ashanti Region
It was held under the auspices of the Environmental Protection Association of Ghana (EPAG).
She said safe motherhood was the basis upon which the country's human resource development depended and therefore it was imperative that efforts were made to improve on the situation.
Dr Bonney urged non-governmental organizations (NGOs) to explore avenues to promoting skills acquisition programmes for the youth.
This, she said, would help reduce the high tendency of teenage pregnancy among them, a situation she attributed to low level of education and vocational skills.
Mr John Kwadwo Owusu, Ashanti Regional Coordinator of EPAG, advocated increased financial and political commitment to ensuring that Reproductive Health Supplies were included in the NHIS Budget Line.