To control population growth, the government is being urged to prioritize reproductive rights.
Mrs Florence Hagan, the Greater Accra Regional Population Officer, has asked the public authority to focus on conceptive wellbeing freedoms and decisions to control populace development in the country.
She said tending to conceptive medical problems like family arranging, early marriage and labor and adolescent pregnancies would assist with accomplishing the Sustainable Development Goal three.
Mrs Hagan said populace development, particularly in the Greater Accra Region had placed a ton of tension on the restricted assets and framework, which called for pressing activity.
She expressed this in Accra at a press preparation to honor the current year's World Population Day (WPD) on the public subject: "Focusing on privileges and decisions; outfitting potential open doors, the way to a versatile future for all."
The worldwide subject during the current year's WPD: "A universe of 8 billion: towards a versatile future for all, bridling potential open doors and guaranteeing privileges and decisions," try to cause to notice the total populace development expected to hit around eight billion before the current year's over.
The 2021 Population Census uncovered that Greater Accra populace expanded from 4,010,054 out of 2010 to 5,455,692 out of 202.
The figure makes Accra the most crowded in Ghana, overwhelming Ashanti area starting around 1970.
More prominent Accra Region, she expressed, was becoming overpopulated because of elevated degree of in-relocation from different locales and migration from adjoining nations, which required pressing consideration.
The 2014 Survey on Demographic and Health shows that the absolute richness rate is 2.8 kids per lady in the country.
Mrs Hagan said the ripeness rate validated that reality that the locale's young age structure was generally because of movement and urbanization.
"We should be worry about Ghana's energetic populace since they address the monetary labor force driving the economy," she said.
She said Ghana accomplishing a segment profit expected that the nation comprehended the size and conveyance of its populace, its current and projected age structure and the speed of populace development.
The circumstance, she underscored, implied public necessities should be coordinated with a grouping of short, medium and long haul ventures that reliable the freedoms of all the populace to appreciate admittance to areas of improvement.
She approached pertinent specialists to add their voices to advance strategies, projects and regulation to end kid marriage, decrease high school pregnancies and backing proof based and young lady focused speculations to engage them with data on their wellbeing privileges.
Dr Farida Njelba Abdulai, the Acting Greater Accra Deputy Director, Public Health, Ghana Health Service, said as the total populace got to eight billion, it was important to focus on the quantity of kids to have for appropriate consideration.
"As wellbeing administration, we work to guarantee that family arranging administrations are protected, satisfactory, reasonable, viable and geologically available for all," she said.
To work on monetary access, she said the National Health Insurance Authority this year supported the utilization of the Authority's card to get to family arranging administrations to expand the take-up of the administrations.
A portion of the members encouraged the initiative of the National Population Council to liaise with the strict pioneers to instruct people in general on conceptive issues, particularly with family arranging.
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