Written by Samir Hosni
Tuesday, February 21, 2023 11:24 am
Dr. Fawzi Fathi, Executive Director of the Maternal and Fetal Health Support Initiative, said that the initiative began gradually in March 2020 in some governorates, then expanded and covered the whole country at the beginning of 2021, with nearly 4,000 centers providing initiative services..
Fathi added, during a telephone interview with the “Good Morning Egypt” program, broadcast on Channel One and the Egyptian satellite channel, presented by the media figures, Mohamed El-Shazly and Menna El-Sharkawy: “In the last stage, we exceeded one million and 800 thousand pregnant women, and the initiative aims to examine pregnant women, and early detection of factors The risk in pregnancy is twofold. The first is screening for infectious diseases that may be transmitted from the mother to the fetus, which is the hepatitis virus B HIV and the bacteria that cause syphilis“.
And the Executive Director of the Mother and Fetal Health Support Initiative continued: “The other part of the risk factors is non-communicable diseases, but they cause danger to the pregnant woman and the fetus, and they include non-communicable diseases such as pressure, diabetes, anemia, and malnutrition problems, and services are provided to the pregnant woman in the first visit to a center or facility.” health care close to where she lives.