Books – Walid Abdel Salam Sunday, August 27, 2023 03:31 PM
The population issue, in all its axes, has received the attention of President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi, in order to reduce its negative effects on the comprehensive reform programs that aim to support resources for an appropriate number of the population to ensure a “decent life” for them.
A package of policies was implemented that caused a decline in population growth to a reasonable extent, as the number of births decreased from 2.7 million in 2014 to 2.183 million in 2022. According to data from the Ministry of Health and Population, the total fertility rate declined to 2.85 children per woman in 2021 compared to 3.5 children per woman in 2014, and the rate of family planning use increased to reach 66.4% in 2021 compared to about 58.5% in the 2014 survey. The world population may reach about 8.5 billion in 2030 and 9.7 billion in 2050.
More than half of the expected increase in the world’s population until 2050 is concentrated in eight countries, including Egypt, which places heavy responsibilities on the shoulders of the state, including the need for rapid and effective action to overcome the ever-increasing population growth.
One of the most important tools for the decline in population growth was the provision of the latest methods of family planning through «Acdima International», the state arm to provide and enhance reproductive health services, as it worked during the recent period, according to the directives of Dr. Khaled Abdel Ghaffar, Minister of Health and Population, to provide all modern means of family planning, especially third-generation methods Fourth, as the latest high-efficiency means.
Dr. Khaled Abdel Ghaffar, Minister of Health and Population, affirmed that President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi provides continuous support for health and population issues that he placed at the top of his political priorities, within the framework of a broader goal represented in providing a decent life for the Egyptian citizen, noting that the increasing population growth negatively affects development efforts and the per capita share. of spending on education, health care and housing, as well as its share of water and agricultural land.
The minister explained that Egypt now ranks fourteenth in terms of population in the world, and that the population in Egypt exceeds 105 million people, saying: “We succeeded in reducing the rate of population increase, but this did not achieve the necessary balance required between population and resources.”
He pointed out that the Egyptian state is working to improve the quality of life of the Egyptian citizen by reducing population growth rates to create the missing balance between economic growth rates and population growth rates, improving the knowledge, skill and behavioral characteristics of the Egyptian citizen, and redrawing the population map through redistributing the population in a way that achieves security. Egyptian National.
And he continued: On February 28, 2022, the Egyptian state launched one of the most important population and development programs, which is the national project for the development of the Egyptian family. One of its axes was the advanced family planning methods that were placed in health units and in pharmacies for the private sector. For her part, Dr. Olfat Ghorab, head of the Acdima Group affiliated with the Ministry of Health and Population, said that there are specific instructions from the political leadership to localize the pharmaceutical industry, supplies, devices, and family planning methods to meet the country’s national needs and work to make Egypt a regional center for the export of vital medicines.
And Olfat continued: With direct instructions from Dr. Khaled Abdel Ghaffar, Minister of Health and Population, to provide all means of family planning within health units and hospitals, the latest methods were manufactured, especially the second, third and fourth generation, stressing that the local market and family planning programs in the ministry no longer depend on the imported product and we have become providing all the needs. Ministry.
She added: The hormonal drug industry is considered one of the complex industries that require modern technology and many complex requirements to be able to manufacture hormonal drugs. Therefore, the state relied on importing contraceptives, which burdened the state with a lot of burdens of providing hard currency, but this was remedied with the strategies of the modern state. To localize the Egyptian pharmaceutical industry.
Olfat continued: “Acdima International, headed by Dr. Fathi Ibrahim, had an important role as the state’s arm in providing advanced contraceptive methods to meet the needs of the ministry and the local market and reduce dependence on the importer.” Specialized in manufacturing hormonal drugs on an area of 20,000 square meters with the strategic aim of providing contraceptives to fill the deficit in imported contraceptives. On the other hand, Dr. Fathi Ibrahim, head of the state-affiliated Acdima International Company, reviewed contraceptive methods of the second, third, and fourth generation, the most advanced and safest in family planning programs, and continued: We have 3 production lines with production capacities represented in one billion tablets and 120 million packages between the vial and ampoule annually, which led to The possibility of providing various contraceptive methods, such as contraceptives in the form of medication, tablets, as a monohormonal contraceptive, which is the appropriate choice for breastfeeding women who cannot tolerate the side effects of estrogen.
These varieties are characterized by their high safety, while the third generation contraceptive methods have a grace period of up to 12 hours if the tablet is forgotten on time. The fourth generation contraceptive methods have a grace period of up to 24 hours. He continued: The dual-hormonal contraceptive is the best for women in the post-lactation period, and its efficiency in preventing pregnancy reaches 99.9% when used correctly and regulates the menstrual cycle. For women after the lactation period, while the fourth generation contraceptives are distinguished by maintaining the purity of the skin and the ideal weight. In contraception, it reaches 99.7%, and he continued: We pumped 30 million elephants for the benefit of the Ministry, while contraceptive methods are in the form of a copper IUD, and we provided 2 million IUDs for the benefit of the Ministry as well, as it is characterized as a long-term method with an efficiency in contraception of up to 99.9% when used correctly.
Dr. Hossam Abdel Ghaffar, spokesman for the Ministry of Health and Population, explained that the strategic stockpile of family planning methods ranges from 6 months to a year “according to the validity date of each method” to meet any emergency conditions, adding that “44” mobile clinics have been comprehensively developed, and the service has been provided. Through 5431 fixed units and 582 mobile clinics for “3,342,710” beneficiaries, through “22,477,796” visits of beneficiaries to the service outlets.
And he continued: “25,005” visits were carried out in mobile clinics to remote, slums and disadvantaged areas, during which the service was provided to “258,744” beneficiaries, indicating that the program for providing family planning services after childbirth and the occurrence of abortions, especially the installation of the IUD during cesarean section, was implemented. The program is in “280” hospitals in 20 governorates nationwide, and the rate of installing IUDs out of the total caesarean sections reached about 32% in 2022.
He revealed that there is an increase in the rate of using family planning methods to reach 66.4%, and he added that the door-to-door campaign “Serving you at your doorstep” was implemented, where the survey system for targeted families and women is implemented from door to door and the necessary health awareness is provided, as well as family planning services are provided. After giving birth, the implementation of the campaign began in Fayoum Governorate, and the initial indicators of the campaign showed that the utilization rate in the governorate reached 67%, and implementation is underway in Assiut Governorate.
2023-08-27 12:31:00
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