Egypt’s Women's Health Initiative serveries provided in 3,593 health units, 112 hospitals

CAIRO – 4 December 2020:  Egypt’s Ministry of Health said that the ‘Women's Health Initiative’ targets women nationwide starting from the age of 18 years, and includes detection of non-communicable diseases such as: diabetes, blood pressure, weight and height measurement and the level of obesity or overweight.

The Initiative aims at raising awareness of factors of noncommunicable diseases, in addition to awareness of family planning, healthy living, and methods of breast self-examination.

The Ministry indicated that the Initiative’s serveries are provided in health centers and units that already provide the President’s medical services for non-communicable diseases Initiative that was launched earlier, which reaches up to 3,593 units, along with additional 112 hospitals around the country.

Egypt’s Ministry of Health launched in October 2018 an initiative under the auspices of president Abdel Fatah al-Sisi to eliminate Hepatitis C and to detect non-communicable diseases under the slogan "100 Million Healthy Lives."

The Health Ministry vowed to completely eliminate the disease from Egypt in 2022.

In a meeting held on May 27, President Sisi ordered intensifying efforts aimed to transfer Egypt's health and medical expertise to other African countries to cure 1 million Africans.

Last September, the ministry said up to 15.000 Chadian people were checked as part of the Egyptian Initiative since the implementation of the initiative October 2019.

In a press release, spokesman for the ministry Khaled Megahed said that the Egyptian medical delegation that traveled to Chad inspected a number of facilities in N'Djamena ahead of starting its mission.

Megahed added that a meeting was held in which a number of Egyptian and Chadian officials had attended including Chadian Health Minister Abdoulaye Sabre Fadoul and Egyptian embassy representative to Chad Mohhamed Orabi to discuss setting a work plan to the initiative in the coming period.

Megahed also said that the initiative managed to examine 15,441 Chadians since October 2019 in which 715 were found to be suffering from Hepatitis C, adding that they received the medications required.