Egypt Healthcare Authority: mobile clinics for the sensitization and screening of citizens in the governorates of Bur Said, Luxor and Ismaili during 2022. And the rest of the health insurance districts soon.
Egypt Healthcare Authority: The need to raise young people awareness of healthy patterns in line with global trends to enhance disease prevention
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Egypt Healthcare Authority announced the results of its awareness-raising campaign on healthy methods of handwashing, oral, dental and gum screening, a sign that the campaign provided services to more than half a million citizens in the governorates of Port Said, the shortest and Ismaili during 2022.
The Commission statement made clear that the campaign mobile clinics had access to citizens throughout and around the three governorates. More than 157,000 citizens were reached in Ismailia governorate and some 160,000 in Bur Said governorate. In addition, health education was provided and approximately 256,000 citizens were examined in Luxor governorate, totaling over 570,000 citizens who benefited from the campaign services in the three governorates during 2022.
In its statement, the Authority completed the campaign, aimed at the most frequent places in the three governorates, where vital signs of attendance at the campaign mobile clinic were ascertained, and some initial examinations were conducted to detect the safety of the mouth and teeth of all those attending clinics, as well as the availability of equipped dispensaries to train children and teach them the proper steps to wash hands with water and soap, to raise awareness and educate their families on the right ways to wash hands and the importance of dental washing from childhood.
The Commission statement goes on to say that, because of its belief in the importance of community participation, teams from the campaign have turned to a number of homes for the elderly and orphans in the three governorates of Port said, Luxor and Ismailia, noting that it has carried out the activities of its campaign for your health. Hold it in hand and snack, in cooperation with Unilever Global.
The statement noted that modern technology has been used to teach children the importance of dental washing, through virtual games inside the mobile clinic, to teach children who hesitate to do dental washing. A number of symbolic gifts and coloring brochures have been distributed to encourage children to wash their hands and clean their teeth properly, in order to encourage children and their families to take care of personal hygiene.
The statement referred to the importance of raising young people awareness of disease prevention as the largest target sector of the campaign, pointing out the need to make them aware of healthy patterns in practice, emphasizing that clean hands, teeth, methods and proper steps in their care, as well as the use of technological tools to create children passion and pleasure with the importance of washing hands and teeth to preserve oral and gum health.
The campaign also included the conduct of medical examinations of those attending the campaign, whether the initial check-ups for the health of those who are in need or the dental check-ups, for adults and young people who are in contact with the campaign mobile clinic. This was in line with global efforts to promote prevention and avoidance of disease, to raise awareness among individuals of healthy patterns in order to maintain the health of citizens, as well as to improve the quality of life and public health of citizens, particularly children. This was consistent with campaigns launched under the slogan of 100 million health services, and in line with the political leadership concern for the health of future generations of Egypt.
This campaign is based on the belief of the Egypt Healthcare Authority in strengthening cooperation with the private sector and in realizing the community responsibility of these companies and their active role in promoting healthy lifestyles. This aims to integrate health services provided by the Egypt Healthcare Authority not only for treatment, but also for prevention programs and the promotion of healthy quality of life concepts, with a view to building a healthy, conscious and disease-free generation, thereby reducing the cost of treatment to citizens.
