Dr. Khaled Abdel Ghaffar, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Health and Population, and Mohamed Abdel Latif, Minister of Education and Technical Education, today, Thursday, inspected the work of the “Our Children’s Eyes, Our Future” initiative, at Mustafa Abdel Rahman School in the village of Fisha Slim in Gharbia Governorate, as part of the Presidential Initiative for Human Development. “A new beginning for building humanity.”
This came in the presence of Dr. Ahmed Al-Mohammadi, Assistant Minister of Education. and Education for strategic planning and follow-up, Dr. Mahmoud Issa, Deputy Governor of Gharbia, Major General Ahmed Anwar, Secretary General of the Governorate, and Mr. Nasser Hassan, Director of the Directorate of Education in Gharbia.
The Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Education inspected Education and medical committees for examination, followed the process of registering students’ data, listened to the follow-up procedures during the examination of the students, and made sure of the medical teams’ commitment to providing medical care at the highest level and the students’ positive response during the examination. Examinations.
During the visit, the Deputy Prime Minister praised the results of the first and second phases of the initiative, and called for the necessity of replicating this model at the governorate level, directing the provision of all means of support. On the part of the Ministry of Health and Population in all its sectors, he expressed his thanks to all partners, especially the Lions Foundation, one of the partners of the initiative.
The Minister of Health also listened. And residents, to a group of students and parents, to indicate the extent of their satisfaction with the level of medical services provided, stressing that the goal of this initiative is to provide a good educational and health environment for students, ensuring that students focus on their studies and achieve the best results.
During the visit, Dr. Khaled Abdel Ghaffar stressed the importance of early detection of vision problems among students, noting that eye health plays a major role in the learning process for students. Students.
For his part, Mr. Mohamed Abdel Latif, Minister of Education and Technical Education, confirmed that the initiative reflects the government’s commitment to achieving a healthy and safe educational environment for all students, noting that early detection of problems Visual helps identify students’ needs faster, which contributes to providing them with the necessary support.
The Minister of Education added that the Ministry is working to spread health awareness, to enhance understanding about… The importance of health care in life Students, stressing the concerted efforts between the various concerned parties to ensure that these services reach all schools, stressing that cooperation between the Ministries of Health and Education is an important step towards achieving comprehensive development and empowering students to achieve the best results in their academic lives.
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The Minister of Education also appreciated the role of the Ministry of Health in this initiative, thanking all the medical and educational teams that contribute to the success of this initiative and providing distinguished service to students.
During the visit, he directed Mr. Minister Mohamed Abdel Latif, Director of the Directorate of Education in Gharbia Governorate, stressed the importance of direct communication with students and opening channels of communication with parents to raise awareness of the importance of maintaining healthy vision in their children, and creating a follow-up card for the student with all treatment data and dates for repeating it if necessary, and facilitating all procedures, including: It ensures that students focus on their studies and achieve the best academic results.
The first phase targeted the initial examination of 200,000 students in 270 schools, at the level of 6 health departments, and the results of that stage resulted in the actual examination of more than 194 thousand students, at a rate of 97.4%, in addition to the medical examination of 10,044 in central schools, and the provision of free medical services to 959 students, 2,411 medical glasses, and 92 Surgical and medical intervention.
The second phase aimed to examine 225,000 students, at the level 4 health departments, with a total of 354 schools, and the actual examination was carried out at a rate of 84.8%, in addition to 13,423 medical examinations in the central schools, and the results of the second phase, up to the first of January, resulted in the provision of 1,240 medical services and free treatment, 1,818 medical glasses, and 61 surgical interventions. And medical.
It is worth noting that the “Our Children’s Eyes, Our Future” initiative It aims to combat and treat early diseases of weakness and loss of vision. The initiative aims to conduct medical examinations for primary school students nationwide, treat discovered cases for free, and perform free surgical interventions for students expected to be infected. It is implemented through the Ministry of Health and Population and the Ministry of Education. It is also part of the activities of the presidential initiative “100 Million Health” and the International Lions Foundation, to detect eye diseases for primary school students.
