Koforidua,(Eastern Region) 16 Oct. The Department of Social Welfare has been urged to outdoor a national policy on house maids. The policy should state the conditions for the engagement of house maids or maid servants, Mr. Edward Apenkwa, a State Attorney, has said at Koforidua. He was addressing a workshop on adolescent reproductive health for apprentices, youth and students of second cycle institutions in the New Juaben Municipal area in Koforidua yesterday. The workshop, attended by 30 participants was organised by the New Juaben secretariat of the National Youth Council. It was sponsored by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). Often the enlightened in society who are supposed to know better, are guilty of abuse of the rights of the girl-child. Mrs. Kate Parks, National Co-ordinator of Policy Project (a product of a UN international workshop in Cairo) urged people interested in the development of girls to lobby parliamentarians to enact a legislation to protect the rights of maid servants. She said the workshop has provided a platform for beneficiaries of reproductive health policies to assist policy makers to come out with workable reproductive health schemes. Ms Patience Richardson, a family planning nursing officer, said menstrual cycles of females could always be affected by emotions and diseases and therefore it cannot be relied upon exclusively to avoid pregnancy.

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