Day activities

Under the patronage of the Director of Health Affairs in Jeddah Governorate, Dr. / Sami bin Muhammad Badawood, the primary health care department celebrated the Gulf Child Day yesterday, ... Attended the inauguration of the activities of the celebration assistant for care and preventive medicine, Dr. Noha Dashash, while the Director of Health Affairs, Dr. Badawood, delivered a speech on the occasion of the opening In which he called on families to pay attention to following up and reviewing the childhood clinic regularly to protect their children from disease and prevent them from occurring before they occurred .. The Jeddah Health Director confirmed that his administration is striving to provide all preventive and curative services to all segments of society, especially children who are often exposed to disease due to weakness Their physical immunity.

Dr. Hanan Al-Mawalad, a family medicine consultant and supervisor of the organization of the activities of the day, head of the Department of Child Welfare in Primary Health Care, has stated very hard that this celebration is a celebration of children who are regularly visiting the clinics of childhood care in health centers, which comes within the interest in encouraging families to visit these clinics that It was established in order to monitor the child’s development and to identify any health problems that the child is exposed to in order to be intervened early, before it worsens. It is a clinic concerned with following up the child until the age of six.

And on the services that will be provided in the celebration of the Gulf Children''s Day, which spanned for three days until Friday 3/2/1432 AH, Dr. Al-Mawled said that the festival will be in two stages, the first that has been launched now. As for the second stage, it will be in the Al-Serafi Mall Center through which Taking biometrics for children under five in the field clinic with explanation of the clinic services and urging visitors to register their children and monitor their physical and mental development in child care clinics in health centers and adult training on cardiac pulmonary resuscitation of children and how to deal with cases of suffocation by The Cardiac Resuscitation Team at King Fahd General Hospital in addition to examining the children’s teeth, conducting flora sessions, giving the necessary awareness, and introducing visitors to the “Don''t Touch Me” program that introduces children to the aspects of child molestation and how to deal with preventing these cases.

Families will also receive vouchers and gifts from health centers, and the participating parties will participate in free games for children as an encouragement to them.

For her part, Assistant Director of Health Affairs for Primary Health Care in Jeddah Governorate, Dr. Noha Dashash, assured that her administration will implement this program through mobile clinics at my website, with the participation and supervision of its elite of consultants and specialists in the field of childhood and dental care as well as social service .. Dashash indicated that it had been done Determine the participating departments of primary health care and participate in the activities of the Children''s Day, which were represented in the Development and Research Department, "Childhood Care Section", the Health Awareness Committee in the Care Administration and the Dental Care Section as well as the Social Service Department.