PANAJI: With the state witnessing round 12 teenage pregnancies a yr, and the numbers solely more likely to go up in future until intervening measures are taken, well being specialists and people dealing with these instances are strongly advocating for intercourse schooling to be made a part of the curriculum.

Presently, the one semblance of intercourse schooling in colleges is educating college students about “good and unhealthy” contact.

Stating that intercourse schooling should be imparted to adolescent women and boys to make them conscious how you can deal with themselves, obstetrician and gynecologist Dr Shraddha Patil mentioned, “We should train them to watch out. Prevention is healthier than remedy.” Intercourse schooling is crucial amongst younger girls and boys to coach them on the impression of unprotected intercourse on well being of youngsters, say specialists.

“There will be reproductive tract an infection in addition to issues in future when a feminine could attempt conceiving in maturity. The chance of infertility when a teenage woman undergoes an abortion cannot be dominated out. There may be additionally the danger of contracting sexually transmitted illness,” mentioned fertility skilled Dr Gauri Gauns.

Patil feels that with intercourse being handled as a “taboo” topic, the difficulty of teenage pregnancies is being pushed beneath the carpet and that there’s a likelyhood of them being under-reported, particularly with medical abortion capsules simply obtainable over-the-counter in pharmacies .

“Many younger women do not come to a health care provider, however get an abortion accomplished by taking an abortion capsule purchased straight from the pharmacy. It is extremely widespread and we see quite a lot of women coming to us with issues after taking these capsules. The capsule must be taken inside a sure window interval of getting pregnant. However when a lady buys it over-the-counter from a pharmacy, that reality just isn’t thought of by the pharmacist,” Gauns mentioned.

Obstetrician and gynecologist Dr Rini Naik mentioned that apart from intercourse schooling, colleges ought to supply counseling in order that women can method and talk about their issues with out hesitation. “I feel we have to make consciousness about contraceptives important within the society, colleges and faculties included.”

Naik, who has performed a research on teenage pregnancies in GMC, mentioned that even 10 or 12 teenage pregnancies in a yr is an enormous quantity for a small state like Goa.

A gynecologist who didn’t need to be named mentioned that in a number of instances, to keep away from disgrace, households approaches a non-public clinic and have their underage women bear abortion as reporting the case can be termed as rape beneath the Goa Youngsters’s Act.

“There’s a tacit understanding between the household and physician. Usually, although there might not be use of drive, beneath the regulation it’s an offense. However with households eager to hush the matter, it by no means will get reported,” he mentioned.