Poverty deters expectant woman from seeking medical care

The high level of poverty in some villages in the Upper West Akyem District of the Eastern Region is preventing pregnant women from attending antenatal. 

Apart from this, Asi Sorofia, a forty-year-old heavily pregnant woman at ‘Kofi Asare’, a small farming town in the Upper West Akyem District of the Eastern Region does not know how old the pregnancy is.

Asi has five children already with the husband and will soon welcome another baby into the family.

Asi Sorofia told Prime News Ghana in an interview that in all the five children she had with the husband, she never attended hospital since the husband is a herbalist and as such, could prescribe herbs for her.

She claimed she took an injection for family planning but the injection failed her, resulting into another pregnancy.

Asked whether she attends hospital for antenatal as required by the Ghana Health Service, Asi said she does not attend hospital for antenatal due to lack of money.

She said the only health centre in the area is also far away from them making it difficult for them to attend antenatally.

She has therefore resorted to herbal medicine whenever she conceives in the 21^st century since the husband is a herbalist.

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