Tackling rising teenage pregnancies in rural Sarawak


N 75 SENADINDatuk Lee Kim Shin (SUPP) - Senadin. ZULAZHAR SHEBLEE / THE STAR

MIRI: An outreach project will be launched to address the alarming number of teenage girls getting pregnant out of wedlock here.

The Tudan Polyclinic in the Kuala Baram district recorded more than 60 cases of teenage pregnancy since January this year in the numerous squatter resettlement schemes.

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