Dr. Abla Al -Alfi, Deputy Minister of Health for Population and Family Development and Chairman of the National Population Council, praised the efforts of Menoufia Governorate in managing the population file and reducing birth rates, stressing the importance of continuing these efforts by supporting the implementation of the urgent plan for human development and improving population characteristics in low regions Population indicators inside the governorate.
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This came during a meeting The Regional Population Council, which was held this evening headed by Major General Ibrahim Apolimon, Governor of Menoufia, in the presence of Mohamed Moussa, Deputy Governor, Major General Dia Qutb, Secretary -General of the Governorate, in addition to executive leaders and representatives of ministries, government agencies and clerics.
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Al -Alfi emphasized that the progress made in the population file embodies the close cooperation between the various regions of the state To apply the axes of the urgent plan, which aims to achieve the national population strategy by 2027, she pointed out that this plan focuses on improving population characteristics and achieving the human rights spit between births between 3 and 5 years, in order to preserve the health of the mother and the child. > & nbsp;
The Deputy Minister indicated that the implementation of the urgent plan began last January and will continue for a period of three Years, targeting the improvement of population indicators with regions that record a remarkable decrease in population indicators, by focusing on the aspects related to the demographic, health, educational, dependency rates, death rates, family planning, and the per capita share of civil societies.
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The plan seeks to reduce the total reproductive rate For Egyptian women to 2.1 children for every woman, with the treatment of a number of prominent social issues such as child marriage, educational ignorance, women’s unemployment, illiteracy, and child labor, and the plan also includes working to reduce dwarf, obesity and anemia rates, with a focus on early childhood care and the elderly
& nbsp; Menoufia Governorate is among the targeted areas, noting that the urgent implementation of the urgent plan in the Menouf Center, and the goals of the plan include an increase in the average number of doctors and nursing sets, and filling the deficit in gynecologists and obstetrics in health care units, which contributes to eliminating unparalleled services. >
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and emphasized that the plan also focuses on promoting awareness of the importance of human rights between births from three To five years to ensure optimal health care for children during the first thousand days of their lives, and expressed her happiness with the positive interaction by the executive authorities in the governorate, noting that this cooperation resulted in the coverage of primary health care units with gynecologists and obstetrics by 100% for one day per week, with Recommendation to increase this coverage to two days a week.
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and invited the Deputy Minister of Health Accelerating efforts to fill the deficit in gynecologists and obstetrics, and invited civil society and the private sector to support the urgent plan to improve population characteristics, stressing that the partnership between the public and private sectors resulted in great successes in ambitious national projects, and pointed to the importance of enabling families economically in low -indicators. Population.
& nbsp; The necessity of intensifying the role of the clergy in raising awareness of the legal population message, calling for the benefit of the efforts of Al -Azhar, the Ministry of Awqaf, and the Church in winning the support of citizens for this message that focuses on the human rights spit between births.
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At the end of the meeting, the Governor of Menoufia, Major General Ibrahim Apolimon, stressed the importance of removing all obstacles that may hinder the implementation of the urgent plan in the province, Stressing the periodic follow -up to the activities of the plan, enhancing cooperation with the University of Menoufia, in addition to studying ways to provide a population watch in the fields of the province to educate citizens about the importance of the population issue.
