The confrontation of Egypt with "Virus C" will be recorded … Masrawy

8:16 p.m.

Monday 03 December 2018

Masrawy – Agencies

In the villages of Mitt Nama and Bijam in Qalyoubia province, the British agency Reuters explained how the government had worked in Egypt to examine for free millions of citizens in order to screen patients with HIV / AIDS. Hepatitis C, highlighting the statements of the World Health Organization. "He said.

The agency discussed with a number of citizens from both villages and conveyed the remarks of the Minister of Health, Hala Zayed, and the representative of the World Health Organization in Egypt, in his report published Monday.

The number of people infected with "virus C" in the world is about 71 million, and the most common methods of infection are the use of risky injections and the contamination of medical equipment, blood transfusions and of products without examination.

Egypt has the largest number of people infected with the disease in the world. The main reason for its spread is the use of non-sterile injections of more than one patient during the campaign against the spread of schistosomiasis in the country several decades ago.

Last month, the government launched a campaign to test more than 50 million adults to determine if they were carriers of the hepatitis C virus. The campaign is not stopping not to detection, but seeks to treat them for free in order to meet the commitment made by the government to eliminate the disease by 2022.

According to international reports published by Reuters, 4.4% of Egyptian adults suffer from the disease, which kills 40,000 Egyptians each year.

The slogan of this initiative is "100 million healthy people" and spread posters in the streets of Egypt, bearing the name of the campaign, which began on Saturday, during the second phase, with the launch of the campaign. image of President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi.

At a press conference by Prime Minister Mustapha Medbouli on Thursday, about 11.5 million people were tested during the first phase of the two-month campaign. The results showed that 5% of the disease.

"She did not want to take the test when she heard about the free campaign for the first time, but when a lot of her parents and her acquaintances took the test, she changed her mind" , she told Reuters.

Reuters met Hoyda in one of the health units of Mitt village, which grew up in Gharbia, and the test showed that she was not infected with the disease.

The news agency also noted that "due to the shortage of health units, the government had begun to use other screening sites and to encourage citizens, including the local people. mobile centers.

From the nearby Bijam village to Mitt Nama, Reuters revealed that the church of Martyr Damiena and St. Thomas, the tourist, harbor a mobile screening center intended to serve citizens after Sunday Mass. The center also resigns Muslim citizens.

The campaign "100 million healthy people" until April, described by John Jabbour, representative of the World Health Organization in Egypt, as "very vast", will help to change the health map of the # 39; Egypt.

"This initiative is a healthy precedent that history will record," he said.

The World Bank will contribute mainly to the campaign, worth $ 133 million for screening and an additional $ 129 million for treatment. The government is also contributing to the financing of the campaign.