During the cabinet meeting today, headed by Dr. Mustafa Madbouly, Dr. Hala Zayed, Minister of Health and Population, reviewed efforts to confront the “Corona” virus, the position of providing vaccines, as well as the number of new cases, the total number of infected people so far, the number of cases that recovered, and the number of deaths .
The minister said: The weekly infection rate has witnessed a remarkable decline since the third week of last January, and the death rate also shows a decrease during approximately the same period.
The Minister of Health reviewed the position of providing vaccines for medical teams, explaining that the vaccine has been provided to all medical teams in each of the isolation, chest and fever hospitals, and that the vaccine is being circulated to the remaining 363 hospitals designated by the Ministry of Health, and 11 university hospitals have been supplied with the vaccine, as well as Port Said Health Care Authority hospitals.
In a related context, the minister explained that the Chinese government decided to donate 300,000 doses of the Chinese vaccine against the emerging “Corona” virus to Egypt. With the aim of supporting the Egyptian government’s efforts to confront the pandemic.
With regard to the health services provided to citizens, in parallel with the services provided to care for patients with “Corona” virus, the Minister indicated that the total number of patients who required surgical intervention reached 215,650 patients during the period from early March 2020 to January 31, in the specialties: cerebral catheterization, Peripheral catheterization, kidney transplantation, liver transplantation, cochlear implantation, brain and nerve surgery, cardiac catheterization, brain and nerves, open heart, bones, ophthalmology, and tumors, in addition to about 14 thousand patients who received drug treatment as an alternative to the surgical procedure, which represents about 33% of all cases since the Elimination Waiting Lists initiative began in July 2018.
In another context, the Minister pointed out that 5 million women have been examined so far during the “Coruna” pandemic period, as part of the presidential program to support women’s health, noting that the initiative has been completed, despite the continuation of the pandemic and the challenges associated with it, due to the serious consequences of the delay Detection of disease and deterioration of the disease status of patients which affects the rates of recovery.
During the meeting, the Minister also presented a comparison of the number of oncology patients during the period from 2018 to 2020, explaining that she notes a decrease in the mortality rate of oncology patients in the last six months of 2020, at a rate of 0.93% compared to 2019, and therefore the intense interest in continuing early detection initiatives continues. And a checklist to protect patients from complications and keep the death rate low.
With regard to training the nursing staff, the Egyptian Ministry of Health has trained more than 79,000 members of the authority in the curative care sector to confront the Corona virus. As for the follow-up of home isolation cases, periodic follow-up is done by basic care doctors, and in case the patient desires to The emergency services request, by calling the call center 105, or sending a message to number 1440 and writing the word (isolation), as she referred to the emergency follow-up system for “Corona” patients in home isolation, through the website http://41.179.253.237/ quarantine / Login, where the case is contacted and medical instructions are given or transferred to a hospital if necessary, and the measures taken to help the patient appear on the website.
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