Revealed Ministry of Health and Population On starting to equip pregnancy-follow-up clinics with health units to start President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi’s initiative for “health of pregnant women”, during the next few days, which is concerned with reproductive health by describing the safe method of contraception and family planning with early detection of diseases associated with pregnancy and educating women about food With proper spacing between pregnancy and strengthening the reproductive health policy, as well as providing a series of analyzes and examinations and providing full care for pregnant women before and after childbirth.
The initiative includes raising awareness of health problems that have negative effects on the health of the mother and the fetus with the aim of preventing fetal abnormalities that create postpartum health problems or infect children with rare diseases that cost the state millions of pounds. The initiative is to provide services related to maternal and child health in more than 5550 units Health in the republic for free, while spreading awareness through health clubs in various governorates.
The Ministry of Health and Population revealed that the diseases transmitted from the pregnant mother to her child are represented by “syphilis and B virus” diseases, and the ministry continued: The initiative will be sustainable to protect the newly born children from diseases that affect their health, explaining that the initiative will take place in several stages in all governorates.
The Ministry of Health stated that syphilis is transmitted from the pregnant mother to the fetus and causes birth defects to a large extent, which increases the risk of miscarriage or the birth of a dead fetus or his death within a few days after birth, pointing out that it is possible for the mother to develop syphilis and do not know that.
She emphasized that the initiative also includes checking for the B virus, because infection of the pregnant woman with it may lead to bleeding during the last three months of pregnancy or the occurrence of premature birth, as it may cause low fetal weight.
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