NAWOJ SENSITIZES IMO FEMALE STUDENTS TO MENSTRUAL HYGIENE

REPORTER: CHIZOBA OPARA

Teenage school girls have been advised to abstain from sexual immorality and drug addictions, which are part of vices capable of destroying their future.

The Imo State Chairman of the Nigeria Association of Women journalists (NAWOJ) Dr. Dorothy Nnaji, made the call in Owerri in an event to commemorate this year’s United Nations World Menstrual Hygiene Day, annually celebrated on May 28.

Dr. Nnaji, further warned that early sexual acts leads to unwanted pregnancy, sexually transmitted infections, premature aging among other things, hence the need to focus on their education to achieve their dreams.

Addressing a cross section of senior secondary school girls, the NAWOJ boss stressed the importance of menstruation to the female folk, pointing out that its absence during the critical stage of a person’s reproduction growth leads to serious health implications.

Speaking on the theme “making menstruation a normal fact by 2030,” a health expert, Mrs. Nlemchi Odocha, who explained that menstruation is a monthly loss of blood from every normal female from adolescent, advised them not to shy away from it.

She also described as false, that involving in sexual acts causes a reduction of painful menstrual cramps.

She rather encouraged people to take more fluids such as warm water or tea to subside the pain.

Mrs. Odocha urged the people to take menstrual hygiene seriously by using sanitary pads and not tissue papers, regular change of pads between four to five hours, neatness of undies and washing of vagina with only water without use of soap or jelly.

High lights of the event was the distribution of sanitary pads to the students of comprehensive Secondary School Egbu.

EDITED BY CHUKWUBUIKE MADU