revealed Ministry of Health and Population On the details of the President of the Republic’s initiative to support the services of primary care units and centres, the objectives of which are represented in:
-1 Distribute services on an as-needed basis, which contributes to the quality of health planning
2- Achieve justice and consider people with special needs through home visits
3– Savings on transport costs and pressure on roads and means of transport to go to hospitals
4– Early diagnosis of diseases
5– Improve the performance rates of public health services
6– Improving family planning services
7– Optimal use of each level Health care
8– Rationalize the use of drugs and disposables globally
The Ministry of Health and Population has declared that primary health care can cover 70% of services without the need to move to other levels, stating that primary care is the real driver of comprehensive health coverage.
The ministry added that there are 5,426 primary care facilities and comprehensive health insurance governorates (6). There are 93 facilities in the countryside and 63 facilities in Al-Hasr, and the rest of the governorates are 21 governorates with 4,942 facilities, except of independent structures. health offices and medical points.
The Ministry of Health has specified that the services provided in primary care facilities include the initiative for women’s health, the initiative for young people and adolescents, the medical examination for school students, compulsory vaccinations, initiative for the elderly, the initiative for the next marriage, evaluation, psychological and nutritional support, the anemia, obesity and stunted growth initiative, hearing examination, evaluation, psychological support, nutrition, maternal-fetal health initiative, visit medicine and vaccinations, thyroid hormone tests, diseases, metabolism, periodic tests, pregnancy, childbirth and puerperium follow-up, genetic disease tests in nursery schools, family planning and child follow-up, chronic disease and kidney disease initiative, disease initiative chronic and kidney disease, micronutrient exchange, psychological assessment and support, nutrition and assessment, milk exchange milk-like, micronutrient exchange and therapeutic dairy exchange.
