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Pregnant 10-year-old Ndola Girl to Deliver Through Caesarian Section
THE mother of the 10-year-old pregnant girl of Kaloko compound in Ndola says doctors have advised that her daughter delivers her child through Caesarian section.
In an interview after she took her daughter to Ndola Central Hospital, the mother of the girl said the pregnancy had reached an advanced stage.
She said she took her daughter to the hospital on Thursday and a scan showed that the baby was fine.
“The scan shows that the baby’s head is facing downwards, meaning that her pregnancy is advanced. The doctor told me that the girl cannot deliver normally because she might be damaged, so she will have to deliver through a Caesarean section,” she said.
Hospital authorities refused to comment on the matter and instead referred all queries to the family.
The girl was impregnated by someone she does not know but whom she says she can recognise.
Meanwhile, Lusaka obstetrician and gynaecologist Dr Mutinta Muyuni says the pregnancy of the 10-year-old girl should open society to realities around early contraceptives and safe abortions.
In an interview, Dr Muyuni said whereas there was a lot done to oppose safe abortion, very little was done to offer social support to unwanted babies who ended up dumped in toilets or discarded in inhumane ways.
“My challenge to those opposing safe abortions and access to contraceptives is to stop being armchair critics,” Dr Muyuni said. “Roll up your sleeves and do your part for Zambian women and children. Help children like this 10-year-old from Ndola have access to school, psychological therapy, support for her family and newborn. Otherwise the more we stigmatise and isolate these girls, the more unsafe abortions and latrine babies will be seen.”
Dr Muyuni explained that Zambia had many minors falling pregnant through defilement.
According to the Zambia Central Statistics figures 2009, three out of 10 girls had experienced child bearing by the age of 19.
She said there was need for a practical approach on prevention of early pregnancies through contraception, access to safe abortion as well as options for women with advanced unplanned pregnancies to give up their children for adoption.
“The 10-year old had no idea like many young girls that she was pregnant,” she said. “What is happening with sex education in schools and contraception for those who are sexually active? This is sadly interpreted as encouraging the young to continue having sex, but quite the contrary, it may prevent sexually transmitted infection, unplanned pregnancy and even reduce high risk pregnancy in underage girls. But even so, sex education has to start from the family. I note also that information concerning available options for unplanned pregnancy is scanty and a thing of whispering behind closed doors. The onus of raising a child is as per our culture strictly not for one family unit
but for the community at large.”
Dr Muyuni observed that there was huge gap between the country’s social welfare services and provision of reproductive health services.
“It is through these comprehensive abortion care services and indeed other reproductive health services that women can receive information on options and those with advanced pregnancies can be guided on where they can safely deliver and give up their babies, as opposed to just rebuking them and later having to fish babies out of latrines,” she said.
She regretted that there were a lot of debates on what was wrong or right when for centuries no answer had come forth.
“It is easy to talk if you have never lost someone to a preventable tragedy such as death from unsafe abortion, or if you have never had to wash faeces off the body of a dumped baby fished out of a latrine and had to pick the maggots from its ears and nose and wished the baby’s mother had access to information on access to options,” said Dr
Muyuni. “We have seen that apart from harsh criticism of those who provide contraception and safe abortion services, armchair critics help no further to safeguard this unprepared mother and her baby. And I hope through social welfare and cooperating partners this will not be the end of the Ndola girl’s education and future, and that her mother will be encouraged to be strong and stand by her daughter through this.”
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pumric
May 18, 2014 at 5:34 pm
When she’s 20 her baby will be 10,wow !
Thief Justice
May 19, 2014 at 2:37 pm
It’s good to note that you can 10 to 10 and zero. Impressive.
SMOKE
May 18, 2014 at 7:12 pm
Worse than Sodom and Gomorah, 10 years old, oh God help Zambia. I think she is a youngest mother in the all world. New Record holder.
Umuntungwa
May 18, 2014 at 8:50 pm
The youngest mother in the world was 5 year old Lina Medina of Peru. At the time of delivery, she was five years, seven months and seventeen days old. Her parents at first thought she had a tumor They took her to see a doctor and she was found pregnant.
Evil men
May 18, 2014 at 7:54 pm
Were ar we going n were was de mother wen de child bcame pregnant .
Pioneer
May 18, 2014 at 7:57 pm
I heard on TV2 NEWS that the girl is an imbecile. Her mental status took a ruthless sex maniac to prey on her.
kakolwe
May 18, 2014 at 8:25 pm
Thanx Dr. Muyuni. But the causes you have analysed are only psychoanalytically biased. I suggest you look at the issue in gestalt. You will find that POVERTY is the root cause. Consider the 24 year old damper, the 18 yr olds on maternity leave, etc. You will surely find that, in spite of info on HIV ++, They all got pregnant chasing the next meal.
Dobo Man
May 18, 2014 at 9:28 pm
@Umuntungwa and she is still
Kamano
May 18, 2014 at 9:55 pm
According some TV news, this girl is only a baby at 10yrs and an embacile too. Some man saw this & took advantage of her. She doesn’t fully understand what is hapening to her bcoz of her mental problem & keeps crying. God help this girl.
one man destruction company
May 18, 2014 at 11:30 pm
Its foolish to someone to get surprised about pregnancy of 1o years old girl. Because one should be surprised when this girl became of age,because when october,november comes what follows next its rainy season. So to me I surprised to learn that she became of age at five.
uncle Sandra
May 19, 2014 at 2:18 am
female husbands and male wives
uncle Sandra
May 19, 2014 at 2:24 am
“I had sex with the man I had negotiated consensual sex with and, because of some peeping Tom who reported us, we have been going through hell ever since then,”
one man destruction company
May 19, 2014 at 6:04 am
Inside job! where is the father of this lady? Let the father say something. Umulilo ucingilile abakulu taoca,wipapa imfwa kumalwele tawaliko.
Pioneer
May 19, 2014 at 6:45 am
@1 man destruction, I’ve seen some sense in your reasoning. Today there is a thin line between sex and a daughter.
Real man
May 19, 2014 at 7:30 am
truly ths world ts not fair at all.whr is the law whch arrested General Kanene.wht is the gvt going to do about that issu.
Kaspalamamba
May 19, 2014 at 8:42 am
sh.i.t seems to happen in the PF era
Boko Haram
May 19, 2014 at 10:38 am
Men also and there behavoirs, why a 10 year old girl. Probably she was even 9 at the time. You find that the same guy is even married.
MK the ORIGINAL
May 19, 2014 at 11:41 am
That’s the worst thing that whoever impregnated that innocent girl did in his life and if he will not repent of that evil, God will punish him twice the normal punishment. Lets us try by all means to help the girl especially those who are close to the family. Then let the media also give us the explanation of how the girl got pregnant it will assist the members of the public to look for the evil man who damaged the lad.
miss pretty
May 19, 2014 at 11:51 am
We want the father to say something.who has sex wit a todller sure.let them test her mayb she has been infectd wit a disease u will never knw.too bad for the family especialy the mother.tule pepa noku pepa.the world is coming to unend.
elijah zimba
May 19, 2014 at 12:06 pm
lets pray for better of our living in the world.
malama mwanza
May 19, 2014 at 12:21 pm
She knows the man, am sure it the relative
philip phiri
May 19, 2014 at 1:09 pm
.God is abt to come
Chief of Grief
May 19, 2014 at 1:35 pm
kanene advocate.Free Kanene.ifibaiche fya nowadays,ama bele na matako too much.
comfused chicken
May 19, 2014 at 2:16 pm
That is obvious,akapunda kanono sana,zero teti papite umutwe,anyway,all the best and learn from the mistake,and mums please moniter your girl children,learn from this please!
frank m bwalya
May 19, 2014 at 2:32 pm
This is exactly what we were learning about in history about the bushmen; a girl of nine years getting married to a boy of thirteen years-have we now become bushmen
natural
May 19, 2014 at 2:34 pm
ask the father or the bros
LUVTED
May 19, 2014 at 4:16 pm
Pliz Kanene iz not part of the issue , live him out of this. More over there woz no exibity.
katwishi mukwai
May 20, 2014 at 11:23 am
Who did to her in the first place? Anyway,abaiche these days nabatemwisha ubuchende.Think of the number of school girls on maternity leave.