A drop in teen pregnancies


By AVA LAI

(From left) State Health Department Assistant Director Dr Dalvinder Singh, Fatimah and JWKS Director Noriah Ahmad after announcing the reduction in the number of teen pregnancies in the state.

KUCHING: The number of teenage pregnancies in Sarawak dropped after the setting up of the One Stop Teenage Pregnancy Committee (OSTPC) in 2014.

According to statistics from the State Health Department, teenage pregnancies dropped 14% last year to 2,909 cases compared with 3,401 cases in 2014.

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