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Gifty Amofa / Elizabeth Yaa Brobbey, RNG
Accra, May 29, GNA – Ghana Tuesday, joined
the rest of the world to celebrate international menstrual hygiene (MH)
Day.
MH Day, which is a global platform for advocacy
and started in 2014, is observed each year to promote good menstrual hygiene
management practices, raise women's awareness of the challenges they face
menstruation.
It's breaking the silence, changing the
Negative social norms around the MHM, urging policymakers to strengthen policies
prioritize and catalyze action for health management at national and sub-national levels;
levels.
Ministry of Education, Ghana Education
Information Service (GES) in collaboration with the Ministry of Women's Affairs, Children and Social Affairs.
Protection (MoGCSP), Ministry of Health / Ghana Health Service and Ministry
sanitation and water resources organized the program.
The theme of this year's celebration was:
"It's time to take action in the area of health and health management", focusing on the critical area of health and occupational health management.
education.
The theme seeks to advocate for a policy and
decision making to prioritize menstrual hygiene management and remove taxes on menstrual hygiene
products, provide adapted toilets for women and disabled people with changing rooms for
provide security and privacy for girls during menstruation and step up
education to reduce the myths and misconceptions surrounding menstruation.
Ms. Freda Prempeh, Deputy Minister of
Children and social protection have called on all parents to guide their
girls on how to handle their menstrual cycles.
She said that some of the girls lacked
knowledge of menstruation and relied on the knowledge of his friends,
teachers and others, which was not the best.
"Some unscrupulous men take advantage of the
girls sleeping with them after helping them buy menstruation
buffer," she says.
She emphasized the need to
little girl during menstruation to allow them to have the confidence to get through the
period.
"They should help them change the perception
that menstruation is something negative, shameful, dirty and taboo like
cultures do, which causes emotional trauma in girls during their menstruation
period."
She said that two in five teenagers were
excluded from social activities during menstruation due to complication
they have met.
Ms. Freda urged parents to provide
menstrual materials and educate their young girls on how to manage it by
clean yourself well so you do not get infections.
The deputy minister suggested that it was
time Ghana started producing its own sanitary napkins because the country had a lot
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The Deputy Minister was of the opinion that the government
it's committed to providing facilities such as clean water, clean toilets
and others in some schools to help girls manage their rules provide some
drugs such as folic acid to treat their problem of anemia.
Ms. Gifty Twum Ampofo, Deputy Minister
of education, said that an effective menstrual hygiene was essential to health and to health.
was essential for the girls to manage well during this time.
The Deputy Minister stated that menstruation was a
natural thing and urged society to refrain from stigmatizing girls when they
stained their robes during menstruation.
Nana Hemaa Adwoa Awindor, Executive Officer
Director of the Obaapa Development Foundation, a non-governmental organization, said
his foundation would work to improve the management of girls during their
rules.
She said that research conducted by Ghana
Education Service said the lack of management of menstrual hygiene
communication has affected girls' performance at school.
Professor Kwasi Opoku-Amankwa,
The Director General of the GES stated that his holding attached great importance to youth
badual and reproductive health and called on parents to educate their pupils
before experiencing menstruation.
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