Health Ministry launches initiative to combat period poverty

The Health Ministry will provide free sanitary pads in a bid to address the issue of period poverty in this country.

Its minister, Dr Zaliha Mustafa, said for a start, the initiative would be implemented at her office at the ministry building.

“We will start at the minister’s office first, and after that (we will expand it) throughout the ministry. And then maybe we can cooperate with other agencies and ministries,” she told reporters after the ministry’s monthly assembly today.