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Convoys Organized in Assiut to Provide Reproductive Health and Family Planning Services in Deprived Areas

Friday 21/July/2023 – 11:59 AM

Major General Essam Saad Governor said AsyutConvoys for reproductive health and family planning are being organized in 20 villages in the Manfalut Center, starting tomorrow, Saturday, July 22, until Monday, July 24, to provide family planning and reproductive health services to targeted women in areas deprived of service and to meet the unmet needs in those areas, and to target hot departments with low population indicators and poor villages affiliated with the presidential initiative, a decent life.

Assiut Governor: Coordinating with the Health and Population Directorate to intensify convoys

The governor of Assiut added that coordination has been made with the Directorate of Health and Population to intensify these convoys and expand the scope of their services in all villages in the governorate’s centers, with a focus on disadvantaged areas, within the framework of the governorate’s keenness to provide free and quality family planning and reproductive health services in disadvantaged and densely populated areas.

The governor of Assiut, the head of the center and city of Manfalout, and the heads of the village units, directed to facilitate the work of the convoys to achieve the desired goals, pointing out that these convoys come within the framework of efforts to improve family planning indicators such as the rates of using family planning methods and reproductive rates and support the development of Egyptian women socially and culturally to raise their awareness and enable them to exercise their rights, pointing to the importance of raising community awareness of the importance of these services in preserving the health of children, mothers and the family, in addition to devising non-traditional ways to attract and motivate beneficiaries to use the methods.

Dr. Muhammad Zain al-Din Hafez, Undersecretary of the Ministry of Health in Assiut, stated that a convoy for reproductive health and family planning will be implemented in the Manfalout Center, starting from July 22 to July 24, in which 4 mobile clinics will participate to provide family planning services, advice, follow-up on work and childbirth, in addition to the implementation of mobile teams in fixed units with the provision of 2 gynecologists to deal with referral cases for the installation of implanon capsules and IUDs to meet the needs of the target audience in these villages.

He pointed out that the convoy begins on Saturday, July 22, through fixed clinics in the villages of Naza Qarar and Rumaih, the health office, Bani Shuqair and Bani Rafie, and through mobile clinics in the villages of Abu Abed, Al-Sahrej and Umm Al-Qusour, in addition to an awareness seminar in the village of Naza Qarar. Bani Uday al-Bahriya and Jahdam, and the convoy concludes its work on Monday, July 24, by organizing an awareness seminar in the village of Bani Majd and providing family planning services in the fixed clinics in the villages of Sarada and Bani Majd, the Health and Atamna Office, and mobile clinics in the villages of Arab al-Amayem, Bani Shaaran and al-Azziyah, pointing out that the convoy takes place under the supervision of Dr.

2023-07-21 09:05:02

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