MENSTRUATION IN PANDEMICS
MENSTRUATION IN PANDEMICS Image from shutterstock In a tweet by UN Women “nearly 1.25 billion women and girls lack access to a safe private toilet”, Menstrual Hygiene Day. This is alarming and sad to our women and girls. This why the world celebrates world Menstruation Day on 28 th May, which was yesterday #MHD2020. According to Rebublicanworld.com World Menstrual Hygiene Day was initiated to be on 28 th May, because most cycles take 28 days and last for 5days. Aim of this day is to promote menstrual hygiene in the world. What is menstruation? Menstruation means the vaginal bleeding that occurs in human and some animals as a result of the uterus wall shedding off. In women menstruation occurs in different cycles some have regular cycles of 21/ 28 days or more others are irregular. Menstruation/periods comes with various challenges in girls and women. Some may experience ; ü Headache ü Vomiting ü Excess bleeding ü Dizziness ü He