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BMA calls for end to period poverty

All patients in hospital should have access to sanitary products, and the government should provide them more widely for free, doctors have said.

Delegates at the BMA annual representative meeting in Brighton on 26 June supported a call for the association to help to end period poverty by ensuring that sanitary products were freely available.

Eleanor Wilson, the medical student who proposed the motion, said that access to sanitary products was fundamental to the human rights, health, and wellbeing of the population. She called on the BMA “to campaign for the eradication of period poverty and for the provision of sanitary products in hospital and community settings.”

“We do not ask patients to bring in toilet paper or food …