New, free pain-relief option for IUDs lands at Ballarat Community Health

New, free pain-relief option for IUDs lands at Ballarat Community Health

Victoria's new 'green whistle' rollout makes IUD pain relief free across Ballarat's Women's Health Hubs, addressing decades of severe patient pain.

New women's health program launched | Brimbank & North West

A new green whistle program was launched at IPC Health’s Sexual and Reproductive Health Hub on Monday. Premier Jacinta Allen and Health and Ambulance Services Minister Harriet Shing visited the Deer Park campus to launch the program. The rollout of the program will see the green whistle (Penthrox) at all women’s sexual and reproductive health hubs as a free pain management option for IUD insertions and removal. This initiative aims to provide be…

Women’s pain is real. Victoria’s ‘green whistle’ finally says so - The Indian Sun

F ree Penthrox for IUD procedures is a small device with a big message: women should not have to suffer in silence to access reproductive healthcare. A long-overdue acknowledgement For generations, women have been expected to tolerate pain as if it were part of their biology, their culture, or their duty. Period pain. Pelvic pain. Pain during sex. Pain after childbirth. Pain during reproductive procedures. Pain that is minimised at home, normali…