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Your Right to Organize Reproductive health services and family planning methods are provided free of charge

The Ministry of Health and Population, represented in the population and family planning sector, announced the provision of free family planning and reproductive health services to 242,000 beneficiaries, within the “Your Right to Organize” campaign.

The “Your Right to Organize” campaign was launched in the past two weeks of December in 9 governorates, including Damietta, Beheira, Alexandria, Qalyubia, Fayoum, Port Said, Assiut, Sohag and South Sinai, in cooperation with the United Nations Population Fund and the European Union.

The adviser to the Minister of Health and Population for Media Affairs and the official spokesperson for the ministry, Dr. Khaled Mujahid, explained that reproductive health services and family planning methods were provided to 242 thousand and 715 beneficiaries, including 46 thousand and 439 new beneficiaries, pointing out that this campaign represents the last stage of the “Our Days are sweeter” initiative implemented by The sector during the current year 2019, where 208 thousand and 53 beneficiaries of them obtained various family planning methods after providing advice.

For its part, the head of the Population and Family Planning Sector Dr. Sahar Al-Sunbati indicated that 385 awareness seminars were presented with the “Our Days are the Sweetest” initiative, which targeted all age groups of men and young people, from both sexes, mother-in-law, Egyptian families and women working under the headings of “Words of a man, my mother-in-law, and our ideal family.” , And a whisper to your health and my system, “to raise public awareness of the impact of family planning on maternal, child and community health.

Al-Sanbati added that the campaign also provided counseling, family planning and reproductive health services, in addition to signing medical checks on beneficiaries, and freeing family planning and medicines.

Al-Sanbati added that the campaign was implemented through 77 health departments in the nine governorates and 1724 fixed and mobile units in urban centers, public and central hospitals, and maternal and child care centers in coordination with many partners such as education directorates, endowments, Al-Azhar Al-Sharif, the Egyptian Church, NGOs, localities, the National Council for Women and the National Population Council.

Al-Sanbati revealed that the campaigns will be resumed during the next year 2020 in the rest of the governorates of the Republic, to complement the ongoing efforts of the Ministry of Health and Population to improve family health, and to contribute to controlling population growth in support of the state’s efforts to address the population increase.

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