childhood and disease control
A number of doctors and officials in the health sector and health care centers stressed the importance of a program to develop primary health care in all regions in accordance with the directives of His Highness the Crown Prince (may God protect him).
They told (Okaz) that this program will contribute to improving the level of health services provided by primary health care centers.
Dr. Samir Abdullah Langawi, Assistant Director of Health in Makkah Al-Mukarramah Region, said: There is no doubt that the Crown Prince’s interest in a program to develop primary health care in all regions of the Kingdom reflects the extent of His Highness’s generous interest in the citizen’s health, especially since health centers are the first gateway in facing diseases and providing the necessary care for mother and child.
Dr. Langawi said that the development of health centers is a necessary requirement that keeps pace with developments in the health field, especially that maternal and child care activities represent the basic pillar of primary health care, as it includes caring for the health of the mother during the pre-pregnancy, during and after childbirth, in addition to educational programs for mothers related to public health, nutrition, health care and protection for children To reduce disease incidence with the aim of improving health care and reducing disease rate.
As for Dr. Khaled Obaid Bawakid, a consultant in family and community medicine at the Health Care Department in Jeddah, he says: Health development is an essential element in the comprehensive national development that our dear country is witnessing in all fields under the wise leadership of the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques and His Highness the second deputy - may God protect them - where The health sector is not only a service, a consumer, but a productive sector, as health is one of the basic ingredients for social and economic development.
Dr. Bawakid added that the interest of His Highness the Crown Prince in a program to develop primary health care reflects His Highness’s keenness to achieve comprehensive health care coverage, to reach the highest possible health level, and to reduce disease rates based on the fact that prevention is better than treatment and improving the performance of health centers and the services they provide to patients. To improve the level of personal and therapeutic services for children and mothers (family health).
Dr. Bawakid affirms that the existence of a program for the development of health care contributes to the improvement of health services, especially if we consider health care centers to be the first level of community members ’contact with health services. It also contributes to focusing more on groups most vulnerable to complications such as pregnant women and children through maternal and child care, reproductive health and maternity care. Safe.
To that, Dr. Ashraf Abdul Qayyum Amir, Assistant Director of Jeddah Health Care for Primary Health Care, says that primary health care represents an important health facility within the health system in the Kingdom. These centers are distinguished by providing health services, including preventive, curative and rehabilitative. On the dangerous diseases that cost health millions of riyals, such as healthy child care services and the basic immunization program, such as the national campaigns implemented by the health against diseases, also child care and maternity care, giving newborns all immunizations since their birth, and following up on the pregnant woman before pregnancy and childbirth.
In addition to that, taking care of patients against chronic diseases such as diabetes, blood pressure, asthma, osteoporosis and obesity, as these diseases have high proportions as a result of well-being, urbanization, and immobility.
Dr. Amir indicated that there is a new program that will be implemented soon, which is a program to monitor risk factors for obesity, stress, smoking and the diseases they cause, which negatively affect the health of patients.
He noted the keenness of the governors to develop health care centers and the great health services they provide to patients
