"Health" vs population increase. What will the ministry do to deal with the crisis?

At a youth conference held in the new administrative capital, President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi addressed poor families in villages, who still have a large number of children despite the situation. difficult financial, stating: "Does it agree that the number of children is overcapacity, .. Ok, what do we do in it?"

These words place the government and the Egyptian mbades in front of their responsibility to reduce the population increase by reducing the number of births, because the problem lies not only in the provision of food and drink, but also in the provision from a range of needs such as housing, education, treatment and services, which weigh heavily on the state and constitute an ongoing inconvenience. Whatever the resources are great.

The data indicate that the expenditure rate for the family planning program doubled by 59.5% between 2015 and 2018, rising to 77.7% for the same expenditures between 2015 and 2018, thus increasing the number of service points in fixed family planning units at 5,400 clinics, Mobile) for disadvantaged, random and border areas to provide family planning and reproductive health services.

The Ministry of Health said it was seeking to strengthen family planning services in all the governorates of the Republic, especially in the most productive places, noting that the establishment of planning facilities family in more than 5400 free health units, in addition to providing them free of charge in the poorest villages, free services all year round to provide free services to users.

"We provided family planning services to 10 19 1992" new and reluctant "beneficiaries in the first half of this year, as part of the Department's plan to achieve the goals of the National Family Planning Program to reduce population growth rate Reproduction.

The Ministry of Health reported that family planning services were provided in government units to 9 million, 357,000 and 629 beneficiaries, including 1 million, 292,000 and 755 new beneficiaries, to whom 451,000 and 163 were added. The beneficiaries, including 105,000 and 647 new beneficiaries in 19 governorates, were selected according to the priorities and demographic indicators in this area. Under the slogan "Your right to organize", and 184,000 beneficiaries, including 41,000 new beneficiaries during 11 visits to mobile clinics for areas without health services and remote services, and 27,000 beneficiaries, including 7,000 new beneficiaries through 175 convoys for health Reproductive health services for family planning and Abaya reproductive health services in remote areas.

According to data from the population and family planning sector, 3 million single hormone shots, 5 million mixed strips, 5 million single hormone pills, 2 million condoms provided in service locations, and 75,000 softgels provided in cooperation with the United Nations Fund.

The Ministry of Health and the Ministry of Health and Population and the Ministry of Health, Women's Clubs were also developed in 9 governorates.

Various training courses are offered to doctors and nurses to provide them with family planning services: counseling, postnatal family planning, abortion, ultrasound, as well as the training of specialists on the installation of cirrhosis after caesarean section in hospitals. Shubra and Muneera, And a general training in the governorates of Cairo and Giza, in addition to organizing training courses to train pharmacists to storage systems, monitor the months of efficiency and the orders of job.

Trainers are trained to promote postnatal and postnatal family planning services, as well as for family planning managers, female supervisors and supervisors in governorates, rural leaders in "maternity visits" and population educators developed rural leadership program; and training in the National Guide to Family Planning Techniques. After being updated in accordance with the latest standards of the World Health Organization, to increase the efficiency of medical service providers.

A total of 179,280 educational seminars were held in the governorates of the Republic to raise awareness of family planning and harmful practices such as: "Circumcision, early marriages, repeated and convergent pregnancies, self-review of bad cancer, as well as visits by club supervisors to health departments, several workshops were held on the estimation of family planning method needs, the update of the contract manual and procurement and supply chain reference manual, through family planning, to the central supervisory team of the sector and supervisory teams from all governorates and to the second and third stages. workers, NGOs and information supply requirements in the coordination between the ministries and the t health services in the governorates.