Saltpond, Nov.6, GNA - A new system to improve reproductive health delivery has been introduced at Saltpond Government hospital. The system, known as "parent craft" is to involve man and wife in discussing and addressing issues of reproductive health.

Briefing Ghana News Agency at Saltpond after its maiden meeting involving 20 couples, Mrs Trinity Brown, a Principal Nursing Officer said it was unfortunate that men saw pregnancy and child birth as a sole responsibility of their wives.

Mrs Brown said though it was a fact that it was women who bore pregnancy with its complications, there were a lot of things their husbands could do to alleviate some of the complications.

Dr. Simpson Anim Boateng, the Mfatseman District Director of Health Service and Acting Medical Superintendent of Saltpond hospital urged men who were the decision makers in the home to play meaningful roles during the pregnancy of their wives.

That is the period when they need love and care, he said. Dr Boateng said parent craft, the first to be formed in a district hospital was a measure being taken to reduce high maternal mortality rate and said it would be replicated at all the sub-district health care facilities in the area.

Mr. J.B. Abaidoo-Abbam, the hospital administrator paid tribute to Dr Frederick Vormawor, the former medical superintendent who died in a motor accident about two weeks ago, for initiating the parent craft system and advised men to help make it a success.