Government Urged To Support Menopause Awareness

The laminitis of the Menopause Support Initiative, Mosunmola Dosumu, has appealed to the national authorities to enactment the run to rise women’s consciousness of the menopause stage.

She said women spell done a batch erstwhile they scope menopause and should beryllium made alert of that signifier of their lives.

He besides called connected non-governmental organisations, peculiarly women’s groups, to enactment the run to make consciousness among women.

The inaugural organised a locomotion for menopause implicit the play successful Abuja. The lawsuit featured a fittingness dance, wellness check, exhibition, and gifts to observe World Menopause Month, which is celebrated each October to make consciousness among women.

Dosunmu said, “Menopause is simply a signifier erstwhile you don’t person clip for yourself. For 2 years, I wasn’t myself, I didn’t cognize what I was going done and that is what makes women spell from 1 infirmary to different and walk a batch of money.

“They walk truthful overmuch clip going astir without knowing what they are going through. Some deliberation that it’s witches and wizards that are disturbing them due to the fact that they unrecorded successful ignorance and it’s truthful unfortunate that our state is not doing thing astir it.

“By twelvemonth 2030, 1 retired of each six women volition beryllium menopausal and unfortunately, they are going to person problems successful their homes due to the fact that their men bash not person an knowing of what their wives are going through. We’ve had cases wherever men really ran distant from their wives. They person spent truthful overmuch wealth trying to enactment their wives together, due to the fact that they unrecorded successful ignorance.

“It’s clip for our authorities to travel and spouse with america and fto america bash this together; we can’t bash this alone. We volition speech to non-governmental organisations that request to travel retired and beryllium a portion of this. Let america make this consciousness together. Women should cognize astir their menopausal state,” she said.