The Deputy Minister of Health honors the heads of 3 obstetrics and gynecology departments in Qena hospitals by appreciating their efforts

Dr. Abla Al-Alfi honored a representative Minister of Health And residents, today, Wednesday, three heads of departments of obstetrics and gynecology in Qena Governorate hospitals, in the implementation of the designation of Professor Dr. Khaled Abdel Ghaffar, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister Cheers The crowd honored the three doctors by appreciating their efforts to increase the rates of safe natural births and decrease the rates of unwarranted caesarean sections.

Dr. Hossam Abdel Ghaffar, official spokesperson for… Ministry of Health And the people, that doctors The three people who received the honor are Dr. Amr Al-Khatib, head of the obstetrics and gynecology department at Farshout Hospital, Dr. Tariq Metwally, head of the department at Naga Hammadi Hospital, and Dr. Jamal Ibrahim, head of department at Qus Hospital.

Abdel Ghaffar noted that the honor was held at the coordination meeting of the Presidential Initiative 1000 Golden Days for the Development of the Egyptian Family, which was held in the presence of Dr. Khaled Abdel Halim, Governor of Qena, Dr. Hisham Zaki, CEO of the Central Administration for Non-Governmental Treatment Institutions and Licensing at the Ministry of Health, and Dr. Mohamed Badran, Undersecretary of the Ministry with the participation of 60 representatives from 19 non-governmental treatment centers, and 120 integrated family counseling providers.

Abdel Ghaffar said that the rate of natural birth in Farshout Hospital reached 81%, Naga Hammadi Hospital 53%, and the rate in Qus Hospital reached 50%, while the average rate of natural birth at the government level reached 52 %, indicating that the Ministry pays great attention to reducing the rates of inappropriate caesarean sections, and encouraging families and doctors to have a safe natural birth, in the context of the development of demographic characteristics newborns and reducing the rates of newborns entering nurseries, which reached 25% on average, as well. how to avoid many of the complications of repeated cesarean sections, especially autism, stunting, and poor school performance.

During the coordination meeting, the Deputy Minister emphasized the participation of non-governmental therapeutic centers in providing integrated family counseling, reducing the rates of medically inappropriate caesarean sections, increasing the rates of nutrition -complete breast, improving the outcomes of neonatal care units, as well as spreading the message of population and family development, which is seen in increasing the level of coverage of hesitant women with family planning methods, as the main objectives of the Golden Millennium Initiative, and improving population characteristics.

She emphasized that the high rate of caesarean births in the government will not be reduced unless the private sector adheres to the ministry’s strategy of avoiding caesarean sections without medical reasons, pointing out that her The ministry is working through its affiliated health facilities to reduce these rates and the reward. Therefore, the participation of the private sector is not an option to comply with the Ministry’s efforts and reduce the overall rate of medically inappropriate caesarean sections.

The official spokesperson of the Ministry of Health and Population continued that the Deputy Minister reviewed, during the meeting, the importance of family counseling rooms being linked to the Presidential Initiative 1000 Golden Days side in free treatment centers, which contribute to providing integrated family counseling to the group. departments dealing with these institutions and raising awareness of the objectives of the campaign, to improve maternal care services And the child and provide the best care for him in the first thousand days of his life .

Dr. Khaled Abdel Halim, Governor of Qena, appreciated the role of the Golden Mile Initiative in improving population characteristics, and integrating them with the efforts of the parties involved in implementing the National Population Strategy, affirming that government action agencies will support these efforts and follow-up work will be implemented to improve the outcomes of the initiative.

For his part, Dr. Hisham Zaki, Head of the Central Administration for Non-Governmental Treatment Institutions and Licensing at the Ministry, emphasized the follow-up work of hospitals and affiliated centers to provide statistics on Caesarean sections, and the coverage level of planning family ways to implement the role of the private sector in implementing the national population initiative and strategy.