Dr. Khaled Abdel Ghaffar, Minister of Health and Population, witnessed, this evening, Saturday, the signing of a cooperation protocol with the aim of supporting and enhancing the services provided to patients with “angina pectoris”, within the system of the national project for care, nurseries and emergencies, under the slogan “In Every Second of Life.”
The protocol was signed by Dr. Helmy Abdel Rahman, head of the Central Administration for Critical and Urgent Care, on behalf of the Ministry of Health and Population, in the presence of a number of leaders and heads of agencies and sectors in the ministry.
The events began with the presentation of a short documentary film that dealt with the statistics of people with chest diseases and heart attacks inside Egypt, in addition to the symptoms and causes leading to heart attacks and angina pectoris, as well as ways to deal with suspected cases of heart disease, and how to spread awareness and community education regarding the harms and risks of this type of infection. Diseases, as well as steps for rapid communication with the health system, via the hotline “16474” to ensure speedy access to medical service.
The Minister of Health and Population stressed that the political leadership pays great attention to developing the urgent and emergency care system, to facilitate the patient’s access to the service, pointing to the importance of this cooperation, which aims to support and raise the efficiency of the national project system for care, nurseries and emergencies, by linking the various sectors of the health system, According to an automated smart system, that ensures the speedy provision of care beds, and facilitates the transfer of care patients between hospitals according to the health condition, stressing the importance of spreading community culture on how to provide first aid and cardiopulmonary resuscitation.
Dr. Hossam Abdel Ghaffar, the official spokesman for the Ministry of Health and Population, indicated that the protocol also aims to spread health awareness regarding the symptoms of angina pectoris and heart attacks, ways to avoid heart disease, and ways to deal with critical cases of a patient with suspected angina pectoris, and symptoms related to cardiovascular disease, through Launching an awareness campaign under the slogan “In Every Second of Life”, as part of the national project for the system of care, nurseries and emergencies, under the supervision of the Central Administration for Critical and Urgent Care at the Ministry.
And he added that among the objectives of the protocol is cooperation in the field of training medical teams according to the latest international recommendations in dealing with patients with acute heart attacks during the first hour, which is called the “golden hour”, in addition to supporting the expertise of human cadres of cardiologists, to ensure that intensive care units are fully operational. Its absorptive capacity, in all hospitals affiliated with the Ministry of Health and Population, in addition to coordination with university hospitals to ensure the registration of patients in all places provided for medical service, in coordination with the Egyptian Ambulance Authority, for the ease and speed of transferring patients.
Dr. Helmy Abdel Rahman, Head of the Central Administration for Critical and Urgent Care, and Executive Director of the National Project for Care, Nurseries and Emergency at the Ministry of Health and Population, reviewed the completion rates of the national project during the trial operation, which provides places for critical care and incubators in coordination with the Ministry of Health and university hospitals, stressing that this cooperation It is a model of cooperation between the public and private sectors to support the health system, pointing out that the Ministry of Health has devoted a hotline for critical cases 16474, to serve critical and emergency patients, to be the link in providing emergency services, and then to send an equipped ambulance to the patient at his location.