Expert urges menstrual hygiene among girl-child

By Bashir Mohammed

Kano

Founder and Executive Director, Sure Start Initiative, Hajiya Binta Shehu Bamalli, has described menstrual hygiene management among girl-child as tool for avoiding contraction of diseases associated with school toilets.
Speaking to newsmen at the Sani Abacha Stadium, venue of this year’s International Day for the Girl Child Education yesterday, Bamalli said there was need for government at all levels to take proactive sanitary measures to save the girl-child from contracting diseases related to menstrual complications as a result of unhygienic conditions of school toilets.
Presenting a paper entitled “Girl Child Education, a Means of Eradicating Poverty in the Society”, a university lecturer, Dr. Kabiru Shehu, said no society could develop when the education of the girl-child is pushed to the background.
He pointed out that women all over the world had noticeably rendered their immense contributions in almost all spheres of human endeavour and that supporting them to excel academically would hasten the quest for ridding the society of the gruelling menace of abject poverty that had taken a disastrous toll on the society.
In her remarks, wife of the Kano state Governor, Dr. Hafsat Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, stressed the need for proper enlightenment and constant sensitisation of the girl-child for them to maintain good and acceptable sanitary standard.
Ganduje, who was represented by the Director, Schools Management, Kano state Science and Technical Schools Board, Hajiya Ladidi Sani Fagge, however, stated that the Ganduje administration had placed high premium on the education of the girl-child, stressing that educating them would add value to the quest for societal transformation.

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