LAGATAR24 NETWORK
Deoghar, June 29: An awareness programme among adolescent girls is being carried out by the Deoghar unit of IMA about the menstrual period under the Pink Health Mission programme.
The target audience are students of class eighth and onwards. Commencing on June 28 June in Red Rose Caster Town, a private school, it will continue till June 30.
On the inaugural day of the camp, half a dozen known gynaecologists of the district responded to the queries raised by students under the presidency of senior gynaecologist Dr Arpita Gandhi.
Blood samples have also been collected from 66 girls and after getting the pathological report girls who are found anaemic will be provided with medicine.
There are three schools of the district headquarter which are to be covered during the ongoing campaign. After Red Rose, Din Bandhu Girls School and Takshashila Vidya Pith will be covered.
Elaborating on the purpose of the campaign Dr D Tiwari, district president of the IMA, told Lagatar24.com that there is an interdependent relation between menstrual health and anaemia because at an early age of 13, girls resort to attending the menstrual period and during this phase, they are bound to lose blood.
As a matter of fact, due to inhibition, they avoid talking about related issues even with their parents and start to lead an unhygienic lifestyle that sometimes leads to reproductive infection. Dr D Tiwari admitted the fact that women in our society hardly bother about their diet as a result they become anaemic which gives birth to many problems. They hardly take a proper diet so as to maintain the haemoglobin label in the blood. He claimed that the basic purpose of the Pink Health Mission is to create awareness among the future mothers about menstrual hygiene at the earliest age so as to keep their bodies healthy.
Dr D Tiwari claimed that during the open session the participating girls are left alone with lady doctors so as to be interactive without any inhibition.
Secretary of the district unit of IMA Dr Gauri Shankar has assured the coverage of the awareness programme will reach the doors of even rural girls.
Notably, the Pink Health Mission is being carried under the guidelines of IMA.
Dr Raamji Prasad, vice president of IMA Jharkhand, Dr Paramjit Kaur, Dr Manjari, Dr Bharati Singh, Dr Sagarika, Dr Shurti and Dr Richa were present on the occasion.
