00:00That day will be a day of pride when a girl will not tell her mother, but her father that she needs a sanitary pad.
00:07In 2013-14, I was suffering from heavy bleeding for two years.
00:31I kept getting my family members to check up, but they found out that my uterus was fine and it was not necessary to remove it.
00:41My family members also told me that it was time for the bleeding to stop, so I should not remove it.
00:49I kept facing the heavy bleeding, but I did not know that I was becoming so anemic inside.
00:59At that time, the quantity of pads I used to get was so large that I used to get so much of it.
01:09Sometimes, I used to get so angry that I bought such a big packet yesterday, but today it is finished and I have to buy a new one.
01:29I was so angry that I did not know what to do.
01:39I did not know what to do.
01:49I did not know what to do.
02:01First of all, nobody wants to talk about this subject.
02:06It is still a subject of hesitation.
02:10The reason for this is that women only hide the truth.
02:21When their mothers themselves do not understand this, how will they tell their daughters that they have to go to the doctor?
02:36The women who have very little bleeding, they use a pack for 24 hours, which is very contagious.
03:03Even if the clothes are not washed properly, they use dirt.
03:18So, the response of the girls is that if we get periods in the middle of the night,
03:25then we have to pick them up and bathe them.
03:28There are many other things like not letting them enter the kitchen,
03:33not letting them touch the food.
03:35The girls say that they are not allowed to touch the food here.
03:38The food will go bad.
03:40So, we want to break all such misconceptions.
03:43We want to tell them that this is not a disease of touching,
03:49nor is it a matter of shame.
03:58But when you go to get a pad,
04:18do not wrap it in a paper or a black polythene.
04:25We want to make them feel ashamed that they have come to get a pad or wrap it in a paper.
04:32The children should also be made to understand this,
04:35so that a father can also be very friendly with his daughter.
04:41So that the day will be of great pride,
04:43when a girl will not tell her mother,
04:46but will tell her father that she wants a sanitary pad.
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