The European Union (EU) Ambassador, Mr William Hanna, has expressed worry about the maternal and infant mortality rates in Ghana.
Speaking at Kandema in the Builsa North District of the Upper East during a durbar, he said statistics on maternal and infant mortality are worrying and something needs to be done to reverse the trend.
“Ghana’s achievement of the Millennium Development Goals, particularly Goals Four and Five is a major concern to the EU,” he indicated.
Mr Hanna said the EU would deepen relations with the government by providing more support to help address the challenge.
He appealed to key stakeholders, including service providers and other non-governmental organisations working in the health sector, to double their efforts.
Mr Hanna said a major stakeholder conference to be chaired by President John Dramani Mahama would be organised in Accra to chart the way forward to curb maternal and infant mortality.
The EU is supporting the Presbyterian Health Service-North and the Christian Blind Mission to implement the Maternal Health Social Accountability Project in the Builsa North, Binduri and the Pusiga districts of the Upper East Region, which seeks to improve public responsiveness to maternal health.
The project, which commenced in 2014, is expected to end in 2016.
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