The Governor of Fayoum discusses with the delegation of "Mervat Soltan" the expansion of medical convoys for eye diseases

Dr. Ahmed Al-Ansari, Governor of Fayoum, today, discussed with the delegation of the “Mervat Soltan” Foundation for Charitable Works, headed by Dr. Jihan Al-Saadawi, Executive Director of the Foundation, the mechanisms for expanding the organization of free therapeutic medical convoys, to detect the causes of blindness, eye diseases, and poor vision in the various centers of the governorate, in the presence of Dr. Mohamed Emad, Deputy Governor of Fayoum, Dr. Lamia Al-Jeddawi, Director of Resource Development at the Mervat Soltan Foundation for Charitable Works, and mr. Ahmed Sayed, Director of Projects at the Foundation.

The meeting discussed mechanisms for joint cooperation between Fayoum Governorate and the Mervat Sultan Foundation for Charitable Works, to expand the organization of medical convoys, to detect the causes of blindness, eye diseases, and poor vision, and to work to provide treatment and medical glasses for medical cases free of charge, while transporting advanced medical cases for treatment. Operations in specialized hospitals, by developing an action plan in coordination between governorate officials and officials of the Mervat Soltan Foundation for Charitable Works, based on a scientific vision and systematic study, to target the largest segment of the people of Fayoum, who suffer from poor vision and eye diseases during the future stage.

During the meeting, the Governor of Fayoum indicated that the governorate welcomes all aspects of fruitful and constructive cooperation with various institutions and bodies working in the field of community service and environmental development, which target the families most cared for by our people in the countryside in various villages in various centers of the governorate, for the benefit of the people of Fayoum, through... Social protection interventions include organizing free therapeutic medical convoys, and related provisions such as providing medical supplies, glasses, medicines, and performing surgical operations.

The governor stressed that the health sector is one of the important sectors, which the Egyptian state, under the patronage of President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi, President of the Republic, gives great care, through multiple presidential initiatives for various medical specialties, including the “100 Million Health Initiative,” and various initiatives aimed at improving health. General services for citizens, and focusing on treating diseases, and these initiatives included all members of the Egyptian family, including initiatives to confront “malnutrition diseases among school children,” “the initiative to detect hearing impairment and loss,” “early detection of hereditary diseases,” and “treating patients.” Hepatitis C, “Supporting Women’s Health,” and “Maternal Health Care.”

The Governor of Fayoum pointed out the importance of developing a systematic plan in coordination between the officials of the Mervat Soltan Foundation for Charitable Works and the officials of the executive agencies in Fayoum Governorate, on a scientific study and field survey of all cases suffering from eye diseases and poor vision in the various centers of the governorate, with a focus on the central villages. Itsa and Youssef Al-Siddiq, that these villages are part of the first phase of the presidential initiative “A Decent Life” to develop the Egyptian countryside, stressing that a timetable has been set by the Foundation’s officials, to organize the medical convoys, their targets, and their itineraries, with coordination with the heads of the local units in the city councils, and the Life Coordinator. Karima at the governorate’s general office, in this regard, on the one hand, and officials of Fayoum University and the Health Directorate, on the other hand, to target the largest segment of citizens who are most deserving of care.

For her part, the Executive Director of the Mervat Soltan Foundation for Charitable Works thanked the Governor of Fayoum for his warm reception, his constructive interaction with the Foundation’s officials, overcoming obstacles and facilitating procedures during the previous stage, which contributed to the implementation of a number of medical convoys in the villages of Al-Wabour, and the drowning, both tribal and marine, They were buried in the Itsa Center, and the villages of Saif Al-Nasr, Al-Khalta, and Al-Shimi, and the tenth village in the Youssef Al-Siddiq Center, to detect the causes of blindness and treat poor vision, noting that the Foundation aims, during the future phase, to organize medical convoys intensively in the various centers of Fayoum Governorate, so that the benefit will spread to the largest segment of citizens. .