News 24 "Health" depends on February 21 to raise public awareness of health in marriage. These are his goals.

The Minister of Health, Dr. Tawfiq Al-Rabee & # 39; a, adopted February 21 of each year as a healthy marriage awareness day, to raise public awareness of the importance of pre-screening. marital diseases of hereditary blood and infectious diseases.

Health Marriage Program is a national prevention awareness program that aims to limit the spread of certain inherited blood diseases, certain infectious diseases, reduce pressure on health facilities and blood banks, avoid social problems and psychological families with children, Global Health.

The purpose of the review is to determine the possibility of future transmission of these diseases to the other spouse or children and to provide them with options and alternatives to help them plan a healthy family.

Since the launch of the program, created 15 years ago, more than 4,341,620 citizens have been screened and some 260,000 pregnant and infected people have been identified for the genetic blood diseases included in the program.

The program also saw a remarkable evolution in the response of non-genetically modified couples, reaching 70%, indicating that society is aware of the importance of genetic compatibility, while the percentage of certificates issued for cases of 39, incompatibility is 1%.