18/9/2022–|Last updated: 09/18/202220:13 (Mecca)
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Egypt’s health minister, Khaled Abdel Ghaffar, was angry at an Egyptian woman when he learned she had given birth to 5 children during a birth control awareness seminar in a village in the Assiut Governorate, south of the Cairo. About her mother and her children.
And the local media indicated that the minister got angry with the woman and asked her, “Will you teach them and how will you deal with them?”
The minister said the ministry aims to create and develop 134 health units and medical centers in the governorate of Assiut, as part of the first phase of the national project for the development of rural villages in Egypt, “a decent life”.
Abdel Ghaffar called on the Health Directorate of Assiut to step up awareness seminars to limit the increase in fertility rates, noting that Assiut is one of the republic’s governorates with the highest fertility rates, which is not in line with the policy. of the ministry to limit the increase in fertility.
Reactions to the Egyptian health minister have been mixed, with some social media pioneers rejecting his statements and criticizing the Egyptian official’s response, but others believe his response comes as a translation of government trends. and the desire of Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi to limit birth control.
And the Minister of Health had statements two days ago in which he said so Pregnancy rates in Egypt are very high, indicating that work on the demographic issue will be stepped up in the coming period.
The minister revealed that there are directives from the president on concern for the population issue, as it involves all development plans.
“Take the opportunity for a year or two to be used to the house and its demands before the caliphate.” President Sisi advises young people about to get married ⬇🎥#TeNTV pic.twitter.com/8BO5cvBKlY
– TeN TV (@TeNTVEG) February 28, 2022
The Egyptian president had previously criticized – in turn – the large number of children, and had repeatedly asked for their reduction and regulation; In 2018 Sisi stressed that the state does not want to prevent births, but rather to control birth control.
He added: “We have made a lot of needs over the past 50 years with the aim of controlling the population growth in Egypt. This has been a big problem since the days of the late President Gamal Abdel Nasser, as well as President Anwar Sadat, then President Mubarak and until now”.
President Sisi: People say on the street that I am angry with you and I have 6 children .. and this was my answer ⬇#TeNTV pic.twitter.com/UUZTBHBUNr
– TeN TV (@TeNTVEG) February 28, 2022
The Egyptian president added that the state wants to regulate pregnancy, saying: “Give yourself an opportunity of 3 or 4 years between a child and a child, and the sufficiency of two children, and the issue does not depend only on awareness”.
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