The Nigeria Medical Association Committee on Girl Child Education has said no fewer than 50,000 Nigerian girls die annually owing to complications arising from wrong and poorly done abortions.
The National President of the Committee, Chidi Esike, speaking on Wednesday during an awareness campaign organized by the Committee at Model Girls’ Secondary School, Ugwuachara, Ebonyi State, decried the high level risk involving Nigerian girl children.
He said the poorly done abortions happened as a result of lack of education and awareness available to girl children and noted that those young school girls were usually influenced by peer pressure.
Dr. Esike called on the female students to take their studies seriously and avoid distractions that often led them have sex before they were mature.
He said early sexual intercourse in girl children inhibit their chances of continuing their education and also exposed them to various risks, which included unwanted pregnancies and death because of badly done abortions.
“The theme of this particular project is Adolescence and the Education of the Girl Child-Negotiating the Mine Field.
“We decided to interact with the students to create awareness of the major challenges facing them in their education through lectures and help them find best solutions that will make their education most effective,” the president said.
The host principal of Model Girls’ Comprehensive Secondary School, Charity Chukwu, commended the NMA Committee on Girl Child Education for their prompt awareness campaign on how to safeguard the future of female children in the state and protect them from various harmful activities like female genital mutilation.
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