Training and Service on Menstrual regulation in Bangladesh

Physician providers are mostly serve clients from a higher socioeconomic status. On the other hand, paramedical providers are more likely to serve MR clients from lower socioeconomic status. Most of the women receiving MR services are ever and current users of contraceptives. They developed fewer complications from MR procedures than those served by untrained traditional herbalists, healers or birth attendants.

This article examines the performance of three urban menstrual regulation (MR) training and service programs in Bangladesh. Most of the MR providers including physicians and paramedics in the three centers received training in various MR procedures by means of demonstration or class lectures. Nevertheless, a substantial proportion of the trained MR providers were unable to render proper MR services due to the lack of clinical facilities and lack of equipment.

Reference:

Amin, R., Kamal, G. M., & Mariam, A. G. (1988). Menstrual regulation in Bangladesh: an evaluation of training and service programs. International Journal of Gynecology & Obstetrics, 27(2), 265-271.

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