Amal Allam wrote Saturday, March 09, 2024 10:18 PM
Dr. Hatem Al-Gabali, former Minister of Health, said: 100 Million Health Initiative To eliminate Virus C was one of the most important presidential initiatives that were achieved to combat the virus in Egypt. It was one of the successful initiatives that resonated globally with a story that dazzled the world. It was celebrated by the World Health Organization in Egypt, and Egypt is considered the first country in the world to eliminate Virus C.
He confirmed in an exclusive interview with “Youm Seven” that this project began in 2006, but the presence of the President of the Republic and his support for the initiative covered the entire country and expanded very significantly and was the reason behind its success, explaining that the other initiative that achieved great success is the Presidential Initiative for Women’s Health. And early detection of breast cancer, which is an initiative that began in 2008 and which President Sisi took an interest in. It was applied to all of Egypt to support women’s health through early detection and treatment of those infected, and the whole world is talking about it.
He said that the other initiative that was launched is the initiative for stunting in children, and measuring blood sugar and blood pressure, which are among the important initiatives that the president has greatly supported and have achieved remarkable success in recent years and are continuing until now.
He added that Egypt was able to control the Corona pandemic, explaining that the Corona epidemic was a very big problem, but the whole world was exaggerating it from my point of view, explaining that there is no pandemic that lasts more than two years, whether we receive the vaccination or not, adding, I I received the Corona vaccination twice, stressing that the reason why no pandemic lasts more than two years is that it infects a large number of people and creates immunity in humans, indicating that the danger is at the beginning of the pandemic, because in the beginning there is no immunity that has been formed from this virus. However, with time and the virus entering the bodies of many people, immunity begins to develop, and the virus itself weakens, so when Corona returned this year, no one died from it, and few were hospitalized, and therefore experts reduced the incubation period to less than 5 days instead of two weeks. Before that.
Commenting on the question: What if you were Minister of Health during the times of the Corona pandemic? Would you have done what the government did at the time? Dr. Hatem Al-Gabali replied that if I had been a minister during the pandemic, I would have taken the same measures that Egypt followed during the pandemic, explaining that in this case the state agencies must join forces with each other, the Interior Ministry with the Ministry of Defense, Supply and Local Government, explaining that the president has been concerned with the pandemic since… Its beginning.
He pointed out that Egypt has large, specialized places for treating burns in armed forces hospitals, and it is one of the finest places where burn injuries are treated, because they are among the injuries to which members of the armed forces are exposed, explaining that there were burn treatment departments in the large departments of universities such as Ain Shams University. , and Kasr Al-Aini, but not as large as the Armed Forces hospitals, because there is a clear shortage in this specialty in Egypt.
He explained that the most important cause of burns in Egypt is boiling water during cooking, explaining that the rate of burns in European countries and the United States is higher than in Egypt because all houses are made of wood, and thus training on confronting fires abroad is at a high level, whether for the public or for those working in the fire. Work on extinguishing.
He added that Egypt has the capabilities to prepare for any upcoming epidemic because it has gone through 3 epidemics in the last 20 years, namely swine flu, bird flu, and Corona, and we succeeded in controlling them, and we have very large medical personnel in all sectors, but I would like to praise the prevention sector. In the Ministry of Health, they are trained at the highest level, and have great capabilities. Dr. Amr Kandil is Assistant Minister of Health for Preventive Medicine Affairs, with monitoring endemic affairs and diseases. He is one of the doctors who have global experience in the field of prevention, and before him was Dr. Nasr El-Sayed, and they are all well-known and we have the experience, capabilities, and system. .
He continued that the health conditions and conditions are what determine the required presidential initiatives, explaining that Egypt’s obtaining the gold certificate for being free of Hepatitis C is due to several reasons, the most important of which is teamwork and proper planning, adding, “We have been fighting Hepatitis C since 2006, and interferon was the only treatment to treat the virus.” Then Sovaldi appeared in 2011, but the Supreme Committee for Combating Hepatitis C played a major role in combating the virus, and negotiated with pharmaceutical companies, as the course of treatment was 52 thousand pounds, and the course became only 1,200 pounds after the manufacture of Egyptian generic drugs, and we began to apply it at the Liver Institute and then in Governorates, and we began to create a network of centers in all the governorates. At that time, when Sovaldi came 5 years after interferon, it was sold for 28 thousand dollars per package in America, and the price of the entire course was reduced by 2000 pounds.
All the elements of success were available, as Egyptian doctors who had the highest level of competence were provided, and the system, structure, and infrastructure were found, and all means were provided in centers in all governorates, and thus it gave us this right with the President’s initiative, and the presidential initiative took another direction, and millions of patients were treated. Patients instead of just thousands.
Dr. Hatem El-Gabaly, former Minister of Health. Hatem El-Gabaly obtained a Bachelor’s degree in Medicine and Surgery from the Faculty of Medicine at Cairo University in 1975, then he obtained the first part of the British Fellowship in Radiology in 1981, then a Doctorate in Diagnostic Radiology in 1983, and was promoted to Professor of Diagnostic Radiology at Cairo University in 2001. .
2024-03-09 20:18:00
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