The Public Health Authority announced the results of its campaign to raise awareness of healthy and correct ways to wash hands and examine the mouth, teeth and gums, noting that the campaign will provide services to more than half a million citizens in Port Said, Luxor and Ismailia governorates during the year 2022.
The authority’s statement indicated that the campaign-affiliated mobile clinics were able to reach citizens in all parts and suburbs of the three governorates, as more than 157,000 citizens in Ismailia Governorate and nearly 160,000 citizens in the Governorate were reached. of Port Said, as well as providing health education and examining what they need Approximately 256,000 citizens in Luxor Governorate, with a total of more than 570,000 citizens benefiting from campaign services in the three governorates during 2022.
The statement adds that the authority has directed the campaign to the busiest places in the three governorates, where the vital signs of those who visited the mobile clinic affiliated to the campaign were checked and some initial tests were conducted to detect the safety of mouth and teeth of all clinic visitors, as well as the availability of equipped basins for the purpose of training children and teaching them the correct steps, washing hands with soap and water, and educating and instructing their families on the correct ways to wash hands and the importance of brushing your teeth from childhood.
And the authority’s statement continued: Building on the authority’s belief in the importance of community participation, the campaign teams visited a number of homes for the elderly and orphans in the three governorates of Port Said, Luxor and Ismailia, noting that the authority implemented the activities of its “Your health .. Keep it with your hands and teeth” campaign, in cooperation with the international company Unilever.
The release notes that modern technological means have been used to teach children the importance of brushing their teeth, through virtual games within the mobile clinic, to teach hesitant children the importance of brushing their teeth, as well as distributing a series of symbolic gifts and coloring booklets to encourage children on the importance of washing their hands and brushing their teeth properly. Encourage children and their families to take care of personal hygiene.
The statement stressed the importance of raising awareness among young people about ways to prevent disease, as they are the biggest target sector of the campaign, underlining the need to inform them in a practical way about healthy models of health, emphasizing that hand hygiene and teeth and following the proper methods and steps to take care of them, as well as the use of technological tools To create passion and fun in children about the importance of hand washing and dental hygiene to maintain oral and gum health.
He explained that the campaign also involved carrying out medical check-ups for the campaign’s visitors, whether they were initial visits to check the health of the visitors or dental check-ups, for adults and children attending the mobile clinic affiliated with the campaign, and that this is in line with global efforts to improve disease prevention and avoidance and raise awareness Adopt healthy health models, in order to preserve citizens’ health, as well as improve citizens’ quality of life and general health level, in particularly for children, underlining that this is consistent with the campaigns that are launched with the slogan “100 million health”, and in line with the interest of the political leadership in the health of the younger generations Future Egypt.
He stressed that this campaign stems from the belief of the Healthcare Company to strengthen cooperation with the private sector, and in order to achieve the social responsibility of these companies, and their effective role in promoting healthy and healthy lifestyles, which aims to the integration of the health services that are provided by the Health Authority. Treatments only, but it extends to prevention programs and the promotion of concepts of a healthy and wholesome quality of life, with the aim of building a healthy, aware and disease-free generation, thus reducing the cost of treatment for the citizen.
