Written by Walid Abdel Salam
Tuesday, February 28, 2023 01:10 PM
The Ministry of Health and Population announced the provision of services Reproductive Health And family planning for 59 thousand and 690 beneficiaries through 689 reproductive health convoys, and 2018 visits to mobile clinics in remote, slums and disadvantaged areas, to target areas with low population indicators and areas of first care, during the month of January.
Dr. Hossam Abdel Ghaffar, the official spokesman for the Ministry of Health and Population, said that the program for providing family planning services after childbirth and the occurrence of abortions has been implemented in 280 government hospitals affiliated to the Ministries of Health and Population and University Education in 20 governorates nationwide, adding that the implementation of the program has begun in a number of private hospitals as an experiment. Counselor in cooperation with free therapy in the governorates of Cairo, Assiut and Sohag.
Abdel Ghaffar added that the program for providing family planning services after cesarean section was applied at a rate of 42% during January 2023, indicating that cesarean section section represents 72% of the total births according to the Egyptian Family Health Survey 2021.
For his part, Dr. Hossam Abbas, Head of the Population and Family Planning Sector, emphasized the availability of modern and diverse family planning methods, and the provision of a strategic stock of family planning methods ranging from 6 months to a year, according to the validity date of each method.
Abbas indicated that one million and 889 thousand and 729 women visited health units in all governorates of the Republic to obtain a method of family planning, including 204 thousand and 528 beneficiary visits for the first time, during the past month.
Abbas stated that 160 training courses were held for 2,727 members of the medical teams in various governorates on advice and services. family planning After giving birth in hospitals, entering data and creating reports and analyzes to identify the most important obstacles and challenges and work to overcome them, with the aim of raising the efficiency of performance in providing family planning services.