In a landmark initiative to strengthen public health and safety, the Centre has notified the Medical Textiles (Quality Control) Order, 2023 which will take effect from October 1.
In a government order, the Health Department announced that 11 lakh adolescent health kits containing a zipper bag, sanitary napkins, and water bottles will be distributed among the girl students in the next six months.
Period poverty is a very real concept in India. According to a March 2020 report of the Ministry of Health, majority of menstruating females in India are largely dependent on unsafe sanitary materials like rags, cloth, hay, sand, and ash as their only alternatives.
Innovation Challenge was launched in October this year in the wake of the rising gap in awareness during COVID-19 pandemic to identify and support start-ups and innovators which are developing technology solutions to sexual and reproductive health challenges such as early diagnosis of pregnancy, polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS), ovulation monitoring, eco-friendly disposal of sanitary napkins and multi-lingual sex education.
“Next week we shall kickoff training of the first batch of 25 female members from the Self Help Groups (SHG) for the purpose. Four trainers from Mumbai are scheduled to arrive here for the purpose,” said Mouli Sanyal, Project Officer, SSM in Burdwan (East).
'Government is taking care of the health and hygiene of poor daughters and sisters and has made them available health-related products at an affordable price,' PM said.
Disclosing this on Tuesday, the health and family welfare minister Balbir Singh Sidhu said that the health department, in coordination with department of education had installed the 100 sanitary incinerators machines in the schools of districts Moga, Muktsar, Bathinda, Fazilka, Faridkot, and SAS Nagar as a pilot project.
School headmaster Kuldeep Kaur and teacher Jyoti have been suspended on the directives of the chief minister Amarinder Singh.
Union Textile Minister Smriti Irani claimed in a tweet on Tuesday that a particular remark attributed to her on the Sabarimala temple issue is fake news.
The district administration has come up with a unique project where the women self-help groups are being provided sanitary napkin making machines.
