Bongo: Midwife Warns Against Barrenness As Scores Of Girls Consume “Emergency Pills”

Bongo: Midwife Warns Against Barrenness As Scores Of Girls Consume “Emergency Pills” A midwife has warned that scores of girls in Bongo, a district in the Upper East Region, are consuming “emergency pills” at an alarming rate and those involved in the intake of the birth-control drug risk struggling in vain to have a child when they need one later in life. The emergency drug, according to her, should be swallowed just once in a year or once in a lifetime, but many girls in the district, in a bid to keep unwanted pregnancies at bay, are consuming it as many times…