SUBHASH MISHRA
Dhanbad, Mar 30: The State wing of Indian Medical Association’s (IMA) Mission Pink Health on Wednesday organized a special one day camp at Max College of Teachers Training at Ramgarh Cantt and imparted valuable tips to hundreds of adolescent girls about care for menstrual cycle and anaemia.
The panel of experts doctors namely Jharkhand co-ordinator of Mission Pink Health Dr Santavana Sharan, Dr Thakur Mritunjay Singh, Dr Pankaj Banerjee, Dr Nidhi Bajaj, Dr Sudhir Arya, Dr Nirmala Nag and others shared information with adolescent girls of the state about menstrual hygiene, good touch and bad touch, fetus killing and proper way of handwashing. The haemoglobin levels of participant girls were also tested.
Mission Pink Health is an ambitious project of the IMA national body for bailing out adolescent girls from the diseases which harm their health most in the absence of proper care and alertness.
On the occasion, Dr Santavana Sharan informed the girls about the importance of maintaining menstrual hygiene and suggested measures for protecting them from such diseases. Dr Sharan said that good touch and bad touch, fetus killing are major challenges for adolescent girls in society and they can play a major role in curbing this practice.
“Mission Pink Health project launched in Jharkhand in 2018 and in four years state unit has covered thousands of girls, especially in the rural pockets through the continuous programme. Even during the Covid period members of this mission and educational institution reached to beneficiaries through online medium,” said Dr Sharan.
Dr Nirmala Nag, on the occasion, while giving tips to girls on health awareness gave away iron tablets, sanitary pads, ORS sachet, soap, albendazole to them.
Co-organizer Max College principal Anand Kishore and Ratan Kumar highly appreciated the IMA project and requested Jharkhand co-ordinator to again organize such camp in the interest of rural adolescent girls’ health.
