Dr. Khaled Gamal Abdel Ghani, Undersecretary of the Ministry of Health of Menoufia, this morning, Sunday 18/9/2022, started the activities of the second phase of the promotional campaign to provide family planning and reproductive health services. ‘organization’ in the Governorate of Menoufia, at the Shebin El-Koum Center and City health center.
This was done according to the directives of Prof. Dr. Khaled Abdel Ghaffar, Minister of Health and Population, and of Dr. Hossam Abbas, Head of the Population and Family Planning Sector of the Ministry, within the interest of the Ministry of Health and of Population in the population issue, improving the characteristics of the population and contributing to the quality of healthy life for the Egyptian family within the National Family Development Project.
During the inauguration of the activities of the second phase of the campaign, the Undersecretary of Health of Menoufia was accompanied by Dr. Rasha Khader, Deputy Director of the Management, in the presence of Dr. Amal Al-Arabi, Director of the Department of Family Planning in the Management, Dr. Nancy Nair, central supervision of the Ministry, and in the presence of Dr. Jihan El-Shazly, Director of Health Administration of Shebin El-Kom, and Dr. Rania Al-Jazzar, Director of the Shebin Center Health Department of El-Kom, the family planning team in health management and administration by Shebin El-Kom.
The Under-Secretary of Health of Menoufia stated that the second phase of the relaunch campaign will last 5 days, in the period from 18 to 22 September 2022, as the second phase includes 5 health departments of the governorate (Shebin El-Koum, Ashmoun, Birkat El – Sabaa, Quesna, Sadat).
It should be noted that the Undersecretary of Health of Menoufia can examine the work of the fixed medical teams in the countryside, the awareness seminars for women and the health advice provided to them, underlining the need to provide full psychological and moral support to all those who they attend the campaign by adhering to infection control standards in dealing with beneficiaries, in addition to the availability of the media material necessary for raising awareness.
The Undersecretary of the Ministry of Health in Menoufia also explained that the campaign includes family planning and reproductive health services, including pregnancy follow-up, ultrasound, obstetric and gynecological visits, one of the most important components of the project for the development of the Egyptian family and in the face of population growth to achieve the sustainable development goals in the light of Egypt’s Vision 2030.
“Abdul-Ghani” reported that family planning services were provided to over 28,000 beneficiaries in 5 days during the first phase of the campaign, which took place in the last week from 9/11/2022 to 9/15/2022 in the departments ( Menouf, Sars Al-Layan) Al-Bajaur, Al-Shuhada, read aloud).
In the same context, Dr Rasha Khader, Undersecretary to the Management, explained that the campaign aims to provide these services free of charge to all interested women, through fixed family planning clinics in units, medical centers and hospitals supported by specialist services, as well as mobile medical clinics to ensure that the service reaches remote and slum areas in hamlets and villages throughout the governorate, with the participation of qualified medical teams of doctors, nurses and rural pioneers, emphasizing the role of the media and the role of rural pioneers in implementing awareness and education seminars, on the importance of family planning and the means available and on the risks of marriage and early and repeated procreation, as well as intensifying the necessary indicative propaganda for citizens, in the places and dates of countryside throughout the province.
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