where they are subjected to exploitative labour practice and deniedaneducation.
The Committee urges the State Party to effectually prosecute perpetrators of
abuse in the family, to alert the society on the dangers of child labour and to
address the root causes of such abuse and exploitations.
F. Basic health and welfare
29. The Committee takes note that the health sector has shown improvement and
that the Government has put different mechanisms, such as the health extension
program, to escalate the health care services. The Committee encourages the
Government to intensify the reach of vaccination in all regions of the country,
increase the number of physicians and medical personnel especially in rural
areas,to increase the quality of health care provided, provide medical facilities in
health care services, and grow the number of and the accessibility of health
centres. The Committee, moreover, encourages the State Party to give special
attention to children with disabilities in the provision of health services to enable
them to access health care centres.
30. Increase efforts to ensure that antenatal service are available to all expectant
mothers and that births are assisted by skilled and trained birth attendants.
G. Education, leisure and cultural activities
31. The Committee commends the State Party for the provision of free primary
education in public schools, the increasing number of schools especially in rural
areas,and the incentive provided for the girl child to attend school. Nevertheless,
despite the increase in the number of schools, the quality of education is
declining and dropout rate is still high. The Committee,therefore, stronglyurges
the State Party to:
a. Reinforce the compulsory aspect of education and push for children to go to
school,
b. Enhance the quality of education andbudget allocated for this sector,
c. Train teachers to build their capacity,
d. Increase success rate of students,
e. Monitor pre-schooling for better early childhood development,
f. Improve foreign language teaching in schools,
g. Take measures to reduce the illiteracy rate which remains high even in a
situation where primary education is free, and
h. Address the causes of high dropout rate.
i. The State Party is encouraged on a progressive basis to make secondary
education freely available to all.
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