Nomantu Nkomo-Ralehoko, the Gauteng Health MEC, urges teenage mothers to return to school.
The province government is concerned, according to Nkomo-Ralehoko, about the number of young girls who drop out of school after giving birth.
MEC informs adolescent mothers that it is not the end of their lives.
According to Eyewitness News, the MEC stated that although there were a number of teenage women who gave birth on January 1, she has urged them to return to school and finish their studies.
On January 1, 2023, she visited the Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital, where 37 infants were born.
TEENAGE MOMS MUST RETURN TO SCHOOL AND CONTINUE THEIR EDUCATIONS “I know that once these teens have their infants, they believe that their lives are over, so I told them that it is not.
The MEC stated, “They must continue attending school, but they must take care of the infants, protect them, and oversee their development.”
More than one thousand babies were born between Christmas and the New Year.
According to The Citizen, 509 newborns, 250 girls and 259 boys, were born on New Year’s Day in health facilities around the nation.
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On New Year’s Day, 167 infants were born at public hospitals in Gauteng.
TEENAGE MOMS MAY BE AS OLD AS 13
Foster Mohale, spokesperson for the Gauteng Health Department, voiced alarm on the 100 adolescents as young as 13 who had given birth.
Jack Bloom, the opposition health minister for the Democratic Alliance in Gauteng, expressed alarm over the increase in adolescent moms.
He expressed a desire for children to be born into secure, two-parent, working families.
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Bloom stated that a fatherhood crisis existed.
Where have the fathers gone? There are not just teenage single mothers, but also elderly single mothers.
Because there is a problem with adolescent moms, abandoned kids, absconding fathers, and unemployment, we must ensure the conditions in which these infants are raised,” he stated.
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