The Krachi-East Municipality in the Oti Region has intensified public education on teenage pregnancy as the municipality recorded 1,974 teenage pregnancies from January to August this year.
The Adolescent Focal Person in the Municipality, Ms Juliet Akorfa Akorlie, who disclosed this said the municipality was worried because 3,000 cases were recorded in 2023.
Addressing a workshop over the weekend for commercial tricycle and motorcycle operators, she called for concerted efforts to deal with the matter given its impact on the victims and their families.
Organised by the Department of Gender in the Oti Region and the Department of Social Welfare, with support from the United Nations Population FUND (UNFPA), the workshop was to educate them on the effects of teenage pregnancy on the victims and society in the Oti Regional capital, Dambai.