The Ministry of Health and Population is launching a free service and awareness campaign to provide family planning services and meansReproductive Healthin all governorates, including remote and deprived areas, from the 5th to the 23rd of June.
This comes within the framework of the national project for the development of the Egyptian family, which was launched by the President of the Republic to support and develop the Egyptian family on the health and economic level and to ensure the quality of family life.
Hossam Abdel Ghaffar, the official spokesman for the Ministry of Health and Population, stated that the campaign will be implemented to provide and provide quality family planning and reproductive health services in the ministry’s fixed units that are spread in cities and villages at the level of the Republic, and through mobile clinics that provide service in remote and slum areas, in addition to villages. And the areas in which the initiative of the President of the Republic (a decent life) is implemented.
Abdel Ghaffar added that the campaign will be launched in three phases with the aim of providing free family planning services and means, in addition to supporting women, and raising health awareness for the Egyptian family, noting that the first phase of the campaign will be launched from June 5 to June 9 in all governorates. Kafr El-Sheikh, Cairo, Dakahlia, Gharbia, Port Said, Sohag, Matrouh, Fayoum, New Valley, Beheira, North Sinai, Qena and Luxor.
Abdel Ghaffar said that the second phase of the campaign will be implemented from June 12 to 16 in the governorates of Sohag, Matrouh, Fayoum, New Valley, Beheira, North Sinai, Giza, Red Sea, Alexandria, Damietta, Sharkia, Assiut, Beni Suef, and Qalyubia. Menoufia, Aswan, Suez, Minya, and Ismailia.
Abdel Ghaffar added that the third phase of the campaign will be implemented in Fanara from June 19 to 23 in the governorates of Giza, the Red Sea, Alexandria, Damietta, Sharqia, Assiut, Beni Suef, Qalyubia, Menoufia, Aswan, Suez, Minya, Ismailia, and Qena. And Luxor, stressing that a distinguished group of safe and effective family planning methods will be provided to raise the rates of use of methods of various kinds, and reduce the unmet need.
For his part, Dr. Hossam Abbas, Head of Population and Family Planning Sector, indicated that the campaign is working to raise health awareness of the impact of family planning on the health of the mother, child and society, in addition to reproductive health issues such as “adolescence, early marriage, child labor, and the harms of dangerous pregnancy of all kinds.” “, through theatrical performances and puppet theatre, where these performances are implemented from house to house to expand the dissemination of awareness-raising information on the importance of family planning and its impact on the health of mother and child, while adhering to precautionary measures and social distancing to prevent the corona virus, in coordination with education directorates, and associations Eligibility, and local councils.
Abbas noted that exhibitions for women’s clubs will be held during the campaign to develop their own capabilities and gain more experience. This helps to empower them economically, as handicrafts, leather products, sewing and knitting works that the beneficiaries produce after their training through the women’s clubs officials are displayed, believing in the importance of supporting women’s development, raising the economic level of Egyptian families and raising women’s ability to make decisions, especially the decision to have children. The framework of the state’s efforts to improve demographic characteristics.