Details of the tour of the Minister of Health and the Governor of Menoufia to health facilities in the governorate
Dr. Khaled Abdel Ghaffar, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Health and Population, accompanied by Major General Ibrahim Abulimon, Governor of Menoufia, today, Saturday, inspected the Iraqi Family Medicine Unit, Menouf Fever Hospital, Shebin El-Kom Teaching Hospital, Al-Hilal Hospital for Health Insurance, and the construction site of Al-Shuhadaa Hospital.
This comes within the framework of field tours carried out by Dr. Khaled Abdel Ghaffar, to follow up on the progress of work in the health system, and to ensure The quality of medical services provided to citizens in health facilities, and learning about any challenges facing the system and working to solve them.
Dr. Hossam Abdel Ghaffar, the official spokesman for the Ministry of Health and Population, explained that the minister began his tour. The Iraqi Family Medicine Unit, by reviewing the automation of the registration system, following up on registration mechanisms, reviewing the database of registrants and the mechanism for opening files for those visiting the unit, and how to follow up on patients’ history, as 8,000 have been registered. Citizen, directed to review the mechanization system within the unit, and train medical personnel and data entry personnel on the automation of medical files, stressing the commitment to wearing uniforms.
«Abdul Ghaffar» indicated The minister inspected the user service room, the family medicine clinic, where the average annual visit to the clinic reached 10,349 beneficiaries, and the dental clinic, which has an average monthly frequency of 3,330 beneficiaries, adding that the minister inspected the vaccination room and was assured of the availability of sufficient stock. Of vaccinations, the frequency rate reached 3,904 beneficiaries.
He pointed out «Abdul Ghaffar» The Iraqi Family Medicine Unit is built on an area of 1,666 square metres, and serves about 21,000 people. The total frequency during the past year was more than 72 patients. It provides all preventive and curative services to the people of the region. It includes a pharmacy, a pregnancy follow-up clinic, a family medicine clinic, and a clinic. Dentistry, a first aid clinic, a children’s vaccination and follow-up room, a youth and adolescent clinic, a vital signs room, a beneficiary service, and an office for the elderly. And school health services, and presidential initiatives, in addition to a public health clinic, sample collection, blood laboratory, sample collection, parasitology laboratory, and health education.
Dr. Hossam Abdel Ghaffar explained that The Minister inspected the main building of the Menouf Fever Hospital, to follow up on the ongoing development work, which includes (developing the hospital’s infrastructure, re-planning and redistributing all hospital departments, in line with the needs of patients, developing accommodation rooms, and establishing a gases network to cover the hospital, And allocating a number of care beds for health pandemics), in order to ensure improvement in the quality of services provided to patients.
«Abdul Ghaffar» added The hospital’s main building is located on an area of 2,370 square meters, and its capacity is 162 beds (accommodation, intensive care, reception, endoscopy, recovery, and suit), as well as 22 dialysis machines.
And “Abdul Ghaffar” continued: The Minister inspected the radiology department, which includes (X-ray, ultrasound, CT scan, and interventional radiology), and also inspected the hospital’s emergency department and pharmacy, to ensure the availability of a sufficient stock of medicines and supplies needed for patients.
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«Abdul Ghaffar» The entire hospital is located on an area of 6,000 square metres, and consists of a main building, and another building that houses outpatient clinics in specialties (digestive system, liver, fever, and children), and also includes the hepatitis virus unit.
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He went on to say that Dr. Khaled Abdel Ghaffar, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Health and Population, praised the work system and performance rates at the Shebin El-Kom Teaching Hospital, affiliated with the General Authority for Hospitals and Educational Institutes, in the Governorate of Menoufia.
The official spokesman for the Ministry of Health and Population explained that Dr. Khaled Abdel Ghaffar inspected a number of departments at Shebin El-Kom Teaching Hospital, including (the catheterization department, reception and emergency departments), and the recovery rooms. He also inspected the “remote” follow-up rooms for intensive care patients. Through a number of screens, ensuring Implementing infection control policies in intensive care.
Abdul Ghaffar noted: Until the Minister listened to the job description of the hospital, which is located on an area of 41,180 square metres, and includes 6 buildings (the old main building, the kidney building, the outpatient clinics building, the emergency hospital building, the economic building, and the administrative building), with a total number of 584 beds. , including 103 intensive care families.
«Abdul Ghaffar» added The hospital provides its services in the specialties of (internal medicine, general surgery, vascular surgery, orthopedic surgery, heart surgery, oral and dental surgery, urinary tract surgeries, maxillofacial surgeries, neurosurgery, catheterization, children, digestive system and liver, intensive care, obstetrics and gynecology). , dermatology, ear, nose and throat, psychological and neurological, plastic surgery and burns, speech, dialysis).
He continued. «Abdul Ghaffar» Shebin El-Kom Teaching Hospital includes a hepatitis virus treatment unit, a pre-marital examination unit, an integrated radiology department, a laboratory, a visual and physical therapy unit, a family planning unit, and a pharmacy. The hospital is also distinguished by conducting clinical research by consultants and scientists in all medical fields, as it The hospital has produced more than 50 medical research papers, and is considered a training center for medical teams.
He said that Dr. Khaled Abdel Ghaffar reviewed the The hospital’s performance indicators during the year 2024, which indicated 761,307 citizens attending various hospital departments, pointing out the hospital’s participation in a number of presidential initiatives (ending waiting lists, supporting women’s health, early detection of tumors).
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«Abdul Ghaffar» continued; During his visit, the Minister inspected the new project to establish the Martyrs Hospital in the Martyrs Center, which is scheduled to be established at an estimated cost of 1.3 billion pounds, and consists of 3 buildings (the main hospital building, the clinics building, and the services building), pointing out that the hospital was established in accordance with the standards of the General Authority for Accreditation and Control. Health.
«Abdul Ghaffar» said: The hospital’s capacity is 208 beds, including beds (residence, nurseries, intensive care, and child care), as well as 31 dialysis machines, 5 operating rooms, an endoscope room, a cardiac catheterization room, and 21 clinics in various medical specialties.
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«Abdul Ghaffar» The hospital includes departments (radiology, emergency, endoscopy, rehabilitation, childbirth, patient residence, burn patient residence, maternity residence), as well as units (intensive care, pediatric intensive care, burn intensive care, surgical intensive care, neonatal intensive care,
Dr. Hossam Abdel Ghaffar noted that during the inspection of Al Hilal Health Insurance Hospital, the Minister responded to the complaint of one of the women, who suffers from the hospital’s distance from Her residence, which represents an additional burden for her children to receive the necessary treatment, as the Minister directed >Abdul Ghaffar indicated that the minister inspected a number of hospital departments, including the dialysis department, which has a capacity of 18 beds, with a total number of sessions. 2,660 sessions during the past 3 months, adding that the total area of the hospital is 1,350 square meters, while the hospital’s capacity is 169 beds, including 16 reception beds, 81 inpatient beds, 10 intensive care beds, 18 dialysis beds, 8 nurseries, and 3 care beds. Medium for children, 22 beds for chemotherapy, and 6 rooms Operations.
Abdul Ghaffar noted: During the past 3 months, the occupancy rate of Al Hilal Health Insurance Hospital reached 65% for the internal department, 67.5% for intensive care, and 40% for nurseries, and the number of operations performed reached 1,786, of which 176 operations were part of the President of the Republic’s initiative to eliminate waiting lists.
At the end of the tour, Major General Ibrahim Abulimon, Governor of Menoufia, indicated that in light of the faith of President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi, with the health of the Egyptian citizen, the health sector in the governorate witnessed a development boom and a major qualitative shift, through the expansion of support for development plans and raising the efficiency of the infrastructure of the health system, to keep pace with the development in the performance of medical services, confirming the actual start of establishing 6 giant medical entities on the territory of the governorate, With investments exceeding 5 billion pounds, which are: (the project to establish the New Martyrs, Ashmoun, and Sadat Hospital, and the establishment of an integrated center for oncology treatment in the city of Menouf, and a new hospital in the city of Shebin El-Kom, and the allocation of a plot of land is underway. land to establish the new Quesna Hospital), stressing his full support for all measures that would improve the efficiency of the health system in the governorate, to serve the people of Menoufia.
The Minister was accompanied during the tour by Dr. Anwar Ismail, Assistant The Minister for National Projects, Dr. Muhammad Mustafa Abdel Ghaffar, President of the General Authority for Hospitals and Educational Institutes, Dr. Ahmed Mustafa, President of the General Authority for Health Insurance, and Dr. Rasha Khader, Head of the Basic Care and Development Sector. The family, Dr. Peter Wagih, Head of the Therapeutic Medicine Sector, Dr. Maha Ibrahim, Head of the Secretariat of Specialized Medical Centers, Dr. Mohamed Zidan, Head of the Central Administration for Therapeutic Medicine and Director of the Department of Specialized Medical Councils, and Dr. Osama Abdullah, Undersecretary of the Ministry in Menoufia Governorate.
