SINGER Elyana (pic), who is battling stage four lymphoma cancer, says she is thankful for the continuous support and prayers from fans as she completes her third chemotherapy round, Utusan Malaysia reported.The 34-year-old Kalis Rindu singer said that she had accepted her fate and hoped that other cancer patients would gain strength through the sharing of her experience.

       “Thank you to those who prayed for me and gave me words of encouragement, it made me smile.

       “I’d be lying to say that I’m not in pain. But I’m still grateful because although I have this illness, God has replaced it with happiness in my soul.

       “I hope that this spirit will benefit those who are also ill. It’s okay, face it with a smile,” she shared on her Instagram platform.

       Elyana, whose full name is Erneelya Elyana Emrizal has just completed her third round of chemotherapy treatment at a hospital in Subang Jaya.

       Her comment section was also flooded with positive reactions from fans, who encouraged her to continue to be strong and determined in facing this test.

       > The daily also reported that a non-governmental organisation has revealed that some teenage girls from poor and low income families were willing to choose pregnancy just so to avoid buying sanitary pads for nine months.

       Sanitary Bank Malaysia secretary Reena Awliyatul Imani Reezal Merican said due to menstrual poverty, which usually occurs in rural areas, women, especially teenagers, were willing to take the easy way out by getting pregnant.

       “When pregnant, they think for nine months there is no need to buy sanitary napkins without thinking about other things that they would need to spend on when they have given birth,” she said, adding there were also women who used newspapers as sanitary pads.

       “They do not think of the danger to themselves, this is because newspapers have carbon that can cause bacterial infections on their private parts and can cause death.

       “Besides that, the issue of ‘menstrual poverty’ also causes teenage girls, especially school students, to often skip school due to problems, which in turn affects their learning,” she said.

       She said menstrual poverty awareness needed to be created within the community by authorities so that the issue is given serious attention.

       ● The above article is compiled from the vernacular newspapers (Bahasa Malaysia, Chinese and Tamil dailies). As such, stories are grouped according to the respective language/medium. Where a paragraph begins with this ' >'sign, it denotes a separate news item.