Rakhand' is decreasing with monthly - Womens Health

'Rakhand' is decreasing with monthly - Womens Health

Rakhand' is decreasing with monthly - Womens Health

Menstrual periods were considered to be 'taboo' or forbidden subjects at one time. But now the students are talking about the matter even in the educational institutions. Various initiatives are being taken in the public and private sectors on monthly management. Government officials acknowledge that, although late, the importance of monthly management of the government has started to be of importance.

In the British Medical Journal in June this year, 41 percent female students of the country are absent from school for almost three days because of monthly usage of 'Manual Hygiene Management Among Bangladeshi Adolescent School Girls and Risk Factors Affecting School Absence: Result from a Cross-sectional Survey'. . About 99 percent of the students suffer from discomfort in school during the menstrual period. 64 percent of the students said that due to monthly education, the school is lagging behind other activities. For the survey from March 2013 to June, the information of girls aged 11 to 17 years is taken. It has interviewed 2,332 students of 700 schools of the city and village.

 Government initiative

Deputy Assistant Engineer of the Education Engineering Department of Education Ministry. Rezaul Haque said that the construction of new buildings for three thousand private secondary schools in the country is currently being co-educated (both boys and girls are studying together). Under the four floors of the four storey building, separate wash bases for boys and girls, and a separate basket (bin) is kept in order to remove the monthly sanitary napkin in the girls' block. Work will start full-time in a month.

Under the Kishoreganj Regional Department of Education Engineering Department, according to the data, in the financial year 2017-18, there were 45 schools (two madrasa) and educational facilities for women in the toilet.

Kishoreganj District Education Officer Mohammed Mostafizur Rahman said, the primary infrastructure of the country's primary schools, apart from the separate infrastructure including separate toilets, the overall infrastructure is good. In comparison to that, infrastructure of secondary level educational institutions is weak. But in most cases at the secondary level, ie students studying at the sixth grade students started monthly. To prevent the absence of school and to prevent child marriage, it is necessary to look at the monthly management and the focus is on.

In the sixth grade physical education and health book of National Curriculum and Textbook Board, menstruation is described as a normal process. It mentions that, generally girls start menstruating at the age of 9 to 12 years. If you are a monthly, you have to adhere to the type of hygiene, sanitary pads or clothes.

The Ministry of Women and Children Affairs launched 4,883 teenage girls club across the country in September. The members of the club will discuss openly with other reproductive health including menstrual cycle.

NGO's initiative

Four organizations have jointly organized a project called the Seasonal Project, with the assistance of the Netherlands government in Netrokona, with the development organization of the Rural Poor (DORP). Work started in 89 schools in 8 upazilas of Netrokona from September 2016.

Talks with project-related people, under the project, schools (primary schools are connected) have been targeted for students aged 10 to 13 years. Teachers are being trained and parents are being made aware. Under this project, budget allocation for the monthly boycott, including the recruitment of people for seasonal cleaning, has been arranged for the seasonal student forum, the school desk in the school, the complainant for the problems of adolescents, and the cleaning of toilets. The slogan 'If the school's toilet is monthly, but do not earn a monthly salary' in the project

Getting priority

Dorp Project Manager Ahmed Hossain said in the first light that the presence of schoolgirls in school has increased much earlier than before.

International organization The Hunger Project and National Kanyaashishu Advocacy Forum are operating 206 secondary schools in 185 unions of 20 districts in the 8 divisions of the country (boys and girls in 181 together) and Safe School for Girl's Campaign, a project has been started since 2016.

National Kanyasisu advocacy forum secretary Nasima Akhter said, now women are not going to be wearing sanitary pads all day during menstruation. Students who use clothes, their cleanliness issues are being taught. At this time the parents are being made aware about giving nutritiousfood to the girls.

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