Women in four local levels of Dailekh and Surkhet districts in Karnali Province are found to be experiencing unsafe mensuration.
A non-governmental organisation informed that 67 per cent of the women in the two districts are still living in animal shed during their mensuration time.
A few months back, the Centre for Environment Agriculture and Development (CEAD) Surkhet had prepared an analysis on the condition of women and Chhaupadi situation in Dullu Municipality and Dungeshwor Rural Municipality of Dailekh district and Barahtal Rural Municipality and Chaukune Rural Municipality of Surkhet district.
The study conducted by the CEAD on 800 women age between 15 and 49 years had found that the women were having risky mensuration due to the prevalence of Chhaupadi (shed where women during their period are kept) practice.
The report showed that 91 per cent women were still following the menstrual restrictions. Of them, 63 per cent of women were found having misbelief that mensuration was caused at the will of the god. They were unaware that mensuration was a natural process in women.
According to the report of the CEAD, the women had a misconception that they became impure during the cycle and still many women tend to stay in sheds during the mensuration period.
Source : TRN,
