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Health experts in Kasese District have called for
more efforts in the mobilization of men to attend antenatal care with their
pregnant wives.
This was resolved during a one day dissemination
meeting of a report on the maternal and neonatal child health at the Rwenzori
International Hotel.
Presenting the report, Mr. Ezakiel Bisogho Mughusu
indicated that the health workers will never manage to counsel the couples when
one is missing.
This follows after the Ministry of Health directed that all men accompany their wives to health units for antenatal care especially for
HIV/AIDS testing.
But most men have declined to attend.
Mughusu said that the prevention of Mother to Child
transmission cannot be realized since women fear to reveal the status to
husbands.
The participants recommended that the health unit
Incharges should strengthen the formation of family support groups where they
can share matters of maternal and child health.
The District Health Officer Dr. Yusuf Baseka called
for consorted efforts to fight poverty in homes so that sick children are
easily taken for adequate medication.
He said that it is not easy for a family that fails
to get a meal to manage transport to and from the health facility.
The workshop was attended by the Chairman LC3 of
Mahango sub-county Mr. Stephen Muthekengwa.
