Wife of the Osun State Governor State, Mrs. Kafayat Oyetola has urged school authorities in the state to key into various advocacy campaign aimed at achieving good healthy living by ensuring toilet facilities in various schools are kept in clean and hygienic conditions.

Mrs. Oyetola made the call at a programme to mark year 2021 Menstural Hygiene Day with the theme “Stepping up Action for Menstrual Hygiene and Health” held at Apara Memorial High School in Atakumosa West local government area of the state of Osun.

She noted that the significance of the special day is part of the international efforts at tackling the health and social challenges that tends to affect the well-being of girls and women in the society.

Mrs. Oyetola pointed out that girls often face challenges in ensuring proper management of the monthly flow ranging from lack of proper information at the onset of menstruation, lack of access to quality materials such as reusable pads to soak up the flow and privacy of changing places when the girls are in school or Public places.

The wife of the Governor who is also the Wash Ambassador in Osun stressed that unhygienic handling of menstural flow in girls could trigger diseases which could negatively impacts school attendance and performance.

She revealed that her NGO and Osun Government have developed a comprehensive campaign on the need to improve access to water Sanitation and hygiene in the state in which one of the expected fruits of the campaign is availability of decent toilets in every home, Communities, schools, market and Public places in the state.

She urged school authorities to give more awareness to issues of water Sanitation and hygiene by setting up wash clubs to ensure the school environment to be more friendly for academic activities.

Mrs. Oyetola also implored mother’s to refrain from cutting genital parts of girls child because victims of the act are tends to experience longer and more painful menstruation than those not circumcised.

Highlights of the programme was presentation of sanitary pads to female students of Apara Memorial High school by the wife of the Governor.

Funmi Adekoya

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