Ramechhap: The girl students studying in the secondary and higher secondary schools here in Ramechhap district are facing problems due to lack of toilet in the schools. Many girl students do not go to school and some even have to suffer from different health problems due to lack of toilet in the schools.

Most of the government schools in the district lack toilets. Toilets in some school lack proper doors and as such girl students do not use such toilets. The girl students have to resist call of nature every day until they reach home after classes are over. The teachers told that the problem gets compounded when girl students menstruate. The girl students suffering from dysentery also remain absent from the schools due to lack of toilets. A 9th grader at a government school said, “Boys can answer calls of nature anywhere. But isn’t easy for the girls. No one is serious to our problem.”
Balaram Timilsina, district education officer, also admitted that the girl students are facing problems due to lack of toilet in the schools. “Girls dropping out of school owing to lack of toilets is a known fact but we have not been able to manage toilet in the schools,” he added.

Source: Nepal Samacharpatra, January 7, 2009