The Directorate of Health Affairs in the Red Sea announced the medical examination of 700 women in the Red Sea during the work of reproductive health convoys in the cities of the governorate over a period of 3 days, as the activities of reproductive health convoys continue in the cities of Hurghada, Qusayr and Marsa Alam in the Red Sea Governorate.
For her part, Dr. Marwa Hamdy, Director of Family Planning at the Red Sea Health Authority, said that there are mobile and fixed convoys that reach poor areas in cities through medical teams, which sign a medical examination and dispense treatment for free.
She added that this comes in implementation of the directives of Dr. Khaled Abdel Ghaffar, Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research and the acting Minister of Health, and under the supervision of Dr. Tamer Marei, Undersecretary of the Ministry of Health in the Red Sea, adding that the convoys started from Sunday, February 27 and continued until Thursday, March 3 in the cities of Hurghada, El Quseir and Marsa Alam.
During the convoys, medical examinations of the woman’s condition and follow-up of pregnancy are also carried out, as well as disbursing family planning methods to 600 female beneficiaries in mobile clinics. Informational seminars were organized for family planning media officials on the importance of spacing between births, in cooperation with the Directorate of Endowments, the Directorate of Solidarity and the National Council for Women.
The Director of Family Planning indicated that the second phase in the cities of Gharib, Safaga, Shalateen and Halayeb will start next Sunday and will continue for a week through mobile and fixed convoys.
For his part, Sheikh Abdul Basit Othman, director of the call of the Red Sea Endowments and the lecturer of the convoy symposium in Hurghada, said that there is cooperation between the endowments and health in the family planning file by sending endowment sheikhs to conduct seminars on reproductive health for the women of the governorate on family planning and religion’s opinion in this file and during the convoys Conducting all examinations and disbursing the means free of charge, in order to ensure that the medical service reaches all the people of the villages and cities of the Red Sea Governorate.
