Mrs Elizabeth Danso, the Acting Ahafo Ano North District Director of Health Services has asked pregnant women to attend antenatal clinics regularly to prevent them from dying during delivery.
She said health facilities were there to serve pregnant women and asked them to make full use of them to ensure safe delivery.
Mrs Danso was speaking at a durbar organised by the Ahafo Ano North District Health Administration for some 200 antenatal mothers at Subriso near Tepa in Ashanti.
The programme, which had as its theme “Safe mother, Safe baby”, was aimed at educating pregnant mothers on the need to attend antenatal clinics during pregnancies so as to avoid complications and death at labour.
She appealed to husbands to support their pregnant wives financially, physically and psychologically so that they could overcome their trauma at that period.
Mrs Danso also appealed to queen-mothers to assist in the campaign to educate pregnant women in the district and to encourage them to attend clinics so as to reduce maternal mortality.
Miss Comfort Agyakoa, the District Nutrition Officer, asked pregnant women to eat a lot of vegetables, meat and beans so as to get more blood and also take balanced diets.
She pointed out that pregnant women who do not take good food were prone to becoming anaemic.
Mrs Patience Osei Adowaah, the Assembly Woman for Subriso, appealed to nursing mothers to send their infants to the Child Welfare Clinics to be vaccinated against the six childhood diseases.
