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Pune docs educate 1700 people on menstrual health

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Doctors from Pune’s Motherhood Hospitals, in association with NGO Spherule Foundation, educated a gathering of 1700 girls and boys about menstrual health on December 17, 2018. By educating such a huge gathering, the doctors also made an attempt to enter the event in the Guinness Book of World Records.

In India only 18% of the 355 million menstruating women use sanitary napkins. With the remaining 82% of women unable to afford sanitary napkins, they resort to using unhygienic substances such as newspapers, sand, leaves, mud or unsterilized cloth/rags.

This is unhygienic and results in vaginal and urinary tract infections, infertility and other infertility.

Dr. Geeta Bora, Founder, Spherule Foundation, said, “The global silence and shame around menstruation is alarming. In India alone, 23-million girls drop-out of schools annually, (i.e. one in every fivr girls) due to the lack of menstrual hygiene management facilities like availability of sanitary napkins and logical awareness of menstruation.”

Dr. Rajeshwari Pawar, Consultant-Gynecologist and Obstetrician at Motherhood Hospitals, said, “Young girls usually have a lot of fear, doubts and misconceptions about menstruation. This is a unique initiative where young girls, boys, men and women are educated on a taboo subject like menstruation and is a welcome change. This is providing people with information on the physiology of menstruation and take away the myths surrounding it.”


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