Wife of Ekiti State governor, Feyisetan Fayose, has expressed serious concern over persistent increase in number of teenage pregcies in the state and warned parents to train and monitor their children more.
She equally warned pregnant women to stop relying solely on the traditional maternity and mission homes, urging them to always register in hospitals for their ante natal care.
Mrs Fayose gave the warning at Efon Alaaye while continuing her tour of the 16 local government areas of the state.
She said: “Parents and guardians must monitor their girl child over the rate young girls are getting pregnant on daily basis. This bad habit has to stop in our locality.
“The young girls must be discouraged from running after men, it is not good for their future, it may ruin their future,” she also stated.
As stated by her, in the process of engaging in unguarded s3xual act, the girls may be infected with s3xually transmitted diseases.
Mrs. Feyisetan Fayose had since the commencement of the tour distributed Mama Kits and specialised milk to pregnant women in the state.
Mrs Fayose has equally distributed school bags, uniforms and sandals to some indigent students in Moba, Oye, Ilejemeje, Ijero, Ekiti West and Efon local government areas.
Explaining the danger in patronising mission homes, Mrs Fayose stated it will be a little bit difficult for health officials to promptly attend to them when having cases of complications during the delivery.
The governor’s wife equally urged women who are in the reproductive stage to embrace family planning and child spacing in order to stay healthy and adequately cater for their children.
The distribution exercise in each local government featured health talk from Dieticians from the State Teaching Hospital.