Presidential directives to localize cancer medicines: Head of women's health initiative

CAIRO - 25 November 2024: The National Committee for the Presidential Initiative for Women's Health has reached every village and every woman in the governorate where she lives instead as part of the presidential initiative for women's health in combating breast cancer.  

 

Head of the National Committee for the Presidential Initiative for Women's Health, Dr. Hesham El-Ghazaly, said during a press conference Monday in Cairo, to review the achievements of the Presidential Initiative for Women's Health in combating breast cancer added "We reached the lady instead of her traveling and reaching us," explaining that in partnership with pharmaceutical companies "we were able to provide medicines to a large number of patients, and we were able to treat a large number of women with breast cancer."

 

He further explained that there are presidential directives to localize medicines, especially cancer medicines, adding that the women's health initiative is a completely free initiative for all women, explaining that the experience of eliminating the hepatitis C virus helped us reach all women and we followed the same method, explaining that there are 3,500 health units covering all governorates across the republic.

 

He explained that we reached all women and were able to reach a very large number of women thanks to the great cooperation between the private sector and the government.

 

He stressed that we did not only conduct examinations, but we also conducted analyses for women to determine the extent of hormone receptors, in order to determine the extent of response of women with breast cancer, and it was discovered that 70% of women have positive receptors for hormones, 35 percent of whom we were able to spare them from chemotherapy and give them hormonal treatment orally only At home.

 

The conferencee was attended by the Swiss Ambassador to Cairo, Andreas Baum.

 

The experiences of other countries were reviewed in the presence of a number of Arab and foreign journalists from Morocco, Libya, Algeria and Tunisia.