The government is preparing to announce the elimination of leprosy
Dr. Mustafa Madbouly, Prime Minister, held a meeting today to follow up the government’s efforts and preparations to announce the elimination of leprosy, in the presence of Dr. Khaled Abdel Ghaffar, Deputy Prime Minister for Human Development, Minister of Health and Population, Dr. Manal Awad, Minister of Local Development, Dr. Maya Morsi, Minister of Social Solidarity, Engineer Sherif El -Sherbiny, Minister of Housing, Utilities, Urban Communities, and the team, Ahmed Khaled Hassan, Governor of Alexandria, Governor of Alexandria, Governor of Alexandria, Governor of Alexandria, Engineer Ayman Attia, Governor of Qaliubiya, Dr. Amr Qandil, Deputy Minister of Health and Population, and officials of the ministries and concerned authorities.
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& nbsp; It will secure a healthy life for individuals, eliminate infectious and non -communicable diseases, and help those recovering to restore their lives and provide them with different support and integration into society.
& nbsp; & quot; C & quot; as well as virus & quot; B & quot, malaria, polio, and others, we will be able to eliminate leprosy and announce Egypt free from it. During the provision of an integrated service represented in the early discovery of cases and its treatment by monitoring the disease and providing specific therapy through the leprosy control department of the ministry’s preventive medicine sector through 27 dermatologists and leprosy clinics, as well as providing the social and psychological aspect of those affected by the disease to rehabilitate them and integrate them into society through training doctors, nursing and social workers to qualify patients medically, psychologically and socially To integrate them into society
& nbsp; All colonies of leprosy worldwide have been canceled and there is no need to isolate patients’ patients; Since it is with the first dose of treatment, the disease becomes unstable, and the patient is treated in any general hospital. Saying: leprosy is a skin disease like other skin diseases. They leave the colonial and integrate them into society with hesitation on the outpatient clinics. Also, most patients in the Abi Zaabal colony consider patients with external clinics and can receive their therapeutic services in any general or central hospital. The global trend of its abolition, and dispensing with the name of leprosy clinics at the level of the Republic and replacing them with specialized dermatologists in light of being a skin disease such as the rest of the skin diseases, stressing the continuation of studying the cases in colonies and providing medical, psychological, critical and social support for them.
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& nbsp; The Governor of Alexandria emphasized that the number of patients in the leprosy colony in Al -Amiriya reaches about 26 patients and they were cured and completely treated from the complications of the disease as well as their rehabilitation. The disease. For patients in Alexandria, there are very few cases, and the largest part of them gets support & quot & Dignity & quot;. Stressing the Ministry’s keenness to provide social support services for all cases according to the results of the social survey, and includes the rehabilitation of patients and their integration of society while providing appropriate job opportunities for the capabilities.
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