Dr Joyce Moriku Kaducu, the State Minister for Health, Primary Health Care has said 30.6 percent of pregnant mothers who deliver at Lalogi Health Centre IV in Omoro district every month are adolescent girls.
Dr Kaducu said some of them are as young as 10 years old.
The Minister said the girls should have been in school and not in maternity ward, describing their giving birth as a shame.
Dr Moriku was speaking after commissioning a 50 million refurbished surgery theatre at the health facility recently.
The minister said the practice of young girls giving birth is unacceptable and tasked parents as well as other stakeholders to ensure that the high rate of pregnancy among young girls in Omoro should end.
When contacted, Dr Robert Amuko, the in- charge of the health facility in Lalogi declined to speak about the number of teenage girls giving birth at the facility saying he is not authorized to speak to the media.
But a statistics shows that since the beginning of this year, at least 112 women have delivered at the health facility.
In June last year, Government launched its first ever National Strategy to end Child Marriage and Teenage Pregnancy as the country joined the rest of Africa to celebrate the Day of the African Child (DAC).
Developed by the Ministry of Gender, Labour and Social Development with technical and financial support from UNICEF, the strategy outlines approaches and interventions that will end child marriage and teenage pregnancy in Uganda.
A recent UNICEF study found that the prevalence of child marriages is highest in Northern Uganda– at 59%, followed by Western region (58%), Eastern region (52%), East central (52%), West Nile (50%), Central (41%), South west (37%), and lowest in Kampala (21%).
Police and Child Rights activists have blamed parents for the increasing cases of pregnancies among young girls as they sanction early marriage.
