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Under 17 Pregnant Girls At Risk Of BP
A clinician says girls who fall pregnant before the age of 18 years are at a higher risk of suffering induced hypertension (blood pressure) and obstructed labour.
Kalomo district medical officer Kenneth Chibwe said girls, who fall pregnant before their bodies fully mature, are also at risk of suffering from Fistula (an abnormal connection between the bladder and the female genitals).
Dr Chibwe said this in Choma during a workshop organised by Safe Motherhood Giving Life (SMGL), a USAID funded project whose objective is to reduce maternal mortality.
Speaking during a presentation on health effects of child marriages, Dr Chibwe said girls who are forced into marriages are at risk of various complications during pregnancy.
“Children who are forced into early marriages risk facing medical complications when they fall pregnant. A girl who falls pregnant between 13 and 17 years is more likely to experience hypertension in pregnancy or even obstructed labour,” Dr Chibwe said.
He revealed that two girls aged 16-years of Kalomo last year, died after suffering from pregnancy induced hypertension.
Dr Chibwe urged parents not to marry girls at a tender age as child marriages are not only a health hazard but retrogressive to the development of the nation.
“Imagine a 14-year-old child getting pregnant and carrying a fellow child! What time will she (victim) go to school and study?
Let us all put a stop to these child marriages,” he said.
The meeting drew 20 participants from Choma and Pemba districts.
First lady Christine Kaseba recently described child marriage as a national crisis and called for Government to introduce a law that will sternly deal with perpetrators of the vice.
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CHIZ~MAN
September 23, 2014 at 8:09 pm
Ati,introduce the law that will sternly deal with perpetrators of the vice. The most inportant thing is to find out the root cause of the so called early pregnance mutwanakashi twine uto,cause from the look of things you are entirly putting the blame on men.
monk
September 23, 2014 at 11:51 pm
ala abaice nabatemwa imiswibo, nabayumfwikisha
tutu
September 24, 2014 at 12:00 am
mwebantu njafweniko,bushe legal age yakutomba akamwaiche nishani? I thnk we nid 2 lower t 2 14, pantu ifi ifibaiche filelowesha,ngawati uloleshe amatako kuminafye amate elowise kwibele nililyaline ilyatutuma ilyakosa kanshi kulaipuntulafye mufibumba
henry mumba
September 24, 2014 at 7:49 am
Early marriage is also a poverty stimulant as the victims do not go into such marriages in lov as as relief to many challenges they face but on the contrary. Shame on parents who marries off their children at a tender age coz of their suffering
henry mumba
September 24, 2014 at 7:59 am
Shame on pipo who’s views on this forum is to contradict the positive info posted. Insteady of condemning bad vices like early marriages, U ar busy saying utukashana utwaiche twalilowesha elyo twalikwata amatako namabele ayasima, it is up to U, chimbokaila gates will b open for U, remember muli ba data, no defilement
underage
September 24, 2014 at 8:03 am
Too many savages and pedophiles sexually abusing minors in Zambia. Bakolwe nemicila!!
Chief Of Grief
September 24, 2014 at 11:31 am
Abaiche of nowadays toooooo much ichibeleshi nabakalamba.Ine akapya kusheta elo ifi ifima infants ifinyo fikulu bad,echo natemenwa abakulu pantu they know how tu nyenga me so perfectly well….
Ba Game
September 24, 2014 at 4:03 pm
utukashana natulowa echine- chine, akamwana kaba landlord ndekanyenga bad elo kalilowa sana nchita ngandekanyinga namalenda yalepona kukanwa. kalinemyaka 11 elo ine am 26 yrs, elo ichiweme nangu nakalalika out banyina kubalisha momye shimama.