The Ministry of Health and Population announced that health facilities in South Sinai Governorate provided one million and 185 thousand and 711 medical services, during the period from the beginning of January until December 2024. This comes within the framework of the directives of Dr. Khaled Abdel Ghaffar, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Health and Population, as part of efforts to achieve Sustainable development goals and Egypt’s Vision 2030.
Dr. Hossam Abdel Ghaffar, the official spokesman for the Ministry of Health and Population, said: The medical services provided in South Sinai Governorate hospitals included reception, inpatient, care, nursery, and operations departments. The outpatient clinics provided 98,461 medical services, while the evening clinics provided 31,851 services in various medical specialties, through Al-Tur General Hospital ( Al-Zahraa), Abu Dis Central, and Dahab Central, noting that the medical convoys provided 33,510 medical services through 60 A convoy of various specialties was implemented during the past year to provide all means of health care to the places most in need.
"Abdul Ghaffar" pointed out To the efforts made to develop and raise the efficiency of hospitals, which included Aburdis Central Hospital, where the “Kidney Department, the Nursery Department, the Child Care Unit, and the Dialysis Department” were developed, and the construction and equipping of 3 new hospitals are being completed: (Al-Fayrouz Complex The Medical Center “has been operating experimentally since last September 1,” Dahab Central Hospital, and Nuweiba Central Hospital).
For his part, he indicated Dr. Haitham Muhammad Al-Shinhab, Undersecretary of the Ministry of Health in South Sinai Governorate, noted that primary care centers and units provided 101,620 medical services, including “outpatient clinics, reception, laboratory, radiology, dental, and pregnancy follow-up services,” in addition to providing family planning services to 30 One thousand and 173 women, through family medicine units in Sadat, Ras Sidr, Negev in Taba, and the Toshka Family Medicine Center in Tur Sinai and Wadi Firan. In Abu Redis, the development plan also included the Sharm El-Sheikh Health Office and adding it to the international vaccination and Hajj and Umrah offices.
Al-Shinhab said that continuing medical education is one of the directorate’s most important priorities, as all employees participated. The Directorate conducted 56 training programs in various scientific, administrative and technical fields to raise their efficiency, pointing to the intensification of traffic campaigns on non-governmental medical facilities, as 114 medical facilities were visited, And 15 closure decisions were issued for violating health requirements.
As part of the efforts of the food control teams, “Al-Shinhab” confirmed 5,179 food facilities were visited, and 41,000 kilograms of food and 64 liters of spoiled drinks were destroyed, and it was recommended to close 14 facilities that were dangerous and polluted and did not meet health requirements.
The community awareness and communication teams and rural women pioneers also succeeded in providing the necessary awareness to citizens, as they provided 730,123 awareness services for citizens, to introduce them to the services provided by public health initiatives, hospital services, and health units, and to provide the most important health instructions for preventing infectious diseases and how to follow a healthy lifestyle.
