During his visit today to Menoufia Governorate, Dr. Mostafa Madbouly, the Prime Minister, along with his companions, inspected the Family Medicine Center in the village of Shamma and the medical convoys in Ashmoon.

During the inspection, the Prime Minister listened to a detailed presentation by Dr. Rasha Khidr, Assistant Minister of Health for Primary Care, who explained that the center is part of the national project to develop Egyptian rural villages “Decent Life”. The center covers a total area of about 2,500 square meters and consists of 3 floors with a total of 45 rooms.

The Assistant Minister also pointed out the medical services provided inside the center, which include 17 diverse services through presidential initiative clinics, family medicine clinics, women’s clinics and pregnancy follow-up, in addition to other specialties such as dentistry, pediatrics, obesity, emergency, physical therapy, and pharmacy. She explained that these distinguished medical services serve more than 36,000 citizens.

Dr. Mostafa Madbouly held a dialogue with a group of patients who frequent the center, inquiring about the quality of services provided and their benefit from the presidential initiatives. The patients expressed their satisfaction and appreciation for the distinguished services provided by the center. The Prime Minister also inspected the presidential initiatives clinic and listened to a detailed explanation of the procedures and implementation mechanisms to ensure maximum benefit for patients.

The Prime Minister also listened to some patients’ requests to add new specialties to the center and inquired from the pharmacy officials about the availability of various medicines, especially for blood pressure, diabetes, endemic diseases, and infant formula.

After completing his tour at the Shamma Family Medicine Center, the Prime Minister inspected the multidisciplinary health initiative convoy and listened to an explanation from Dr. Shaimaa Nagdy, coordinator of the medical convoys in Menoufia Governorate, who explained that the convoy included 6 mobile clinics covering internal medicine, gynecology, surgery, dentistry, in addition to the pharmacy and radiology unit.

She added that a series of medical convoys were organized in the village of Shamma affiliated with Ashmoon center under the supervision of the Medical Convoys Department at the Health Directorate, during September 13 and 14, benefiting about 2,140 citizens from the medical services provided during that period.

At the end of his inspection tour, the Prime Minister praised all medical teams and all participants in this distinguished effort to serve patients and citizens within the governorate, stressing that this work greatly contributes to providing high-quality medical services to alleviate burdens on citizens nationwide.