Media critical in promoting promoting uptake of neonatal and child health care services and interventions
Chamanga making her presentation before the journalists–Photo by Watipaso Mzungu
The Malawi Government has challenged the media to assume a greater role in promoting uptake of neonatal and child health care services and interventions.
Programme Manager for Integrated Management of Childhood Illnesses in the Ministry of Health and Population, Humphreys Nsona, made the sentiments at Mponela in Dowa during an interface meeting on Friday.
The interface meeting with the journalists is a build-up activity ahead of the launch of the Integrated Child Health Strategy in June 2021.
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Nana Afena Osei II, Chief of Traa, home of the ancient, famous, and powerful “Buorkyerewa deity” in Techiman, has called on his fellow religious leaders, Government, Parents, and other stakeholders, to come on board to help flash out fake prophets, mallams, traditional priest and priestesses, and online money doublers who have taken over the media landscape, to save the future of Ghana.
He attributed the recent rise in youth indiscipline and the get rich quickly to media content and peer pressure.
The chief said this catalyst drives the youth into taking human lives, alcoholism, and drug abuse.
Nana Afena Osei II spoke with Asta FM’s Nana Kwadwo Adu on the sidelines of a meeting with Parents, Teachers, and Youths of Traa where health professionals were brought in to educate on the dangers of drugs and alcohol.
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