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Dr. Badrawi gives a speech on the population challenge at the National Research Center

At the invitation of Dr. Suad Abdel Rahim, Director of the National Center for Social and Criminal Research, Dr. Badrawi gave his view on the demographic challenge facing Egypt, in the presence of Messrs. Ghada Wali, Minister of Solidarity, Grand Mufti Dr. Shawky Allam, Major General Khairat Barakat, Head of the Central Agency for Mobilization and Statistics, and Dr. Hisham Makhlouf, President of the Egyptian Statistics Association.

Dr. Hossam began his speech with an important introduction to his opinion, which he said in 2001 at a population conference 18 years ago, where Dr. Badrawi said in 2001 in his predictions:

“If the current situation continues without fruitful efforts to organize the family, the population of Egypt will reach 96 million in 2017, but if efforts are intensified, coordination and integration between the various sectors of the state with the civil sector, and we reach our national goal, which is two children at most for each woman, it will be The population in the same year was about 86 million people, i.e. 10 million people, a decrease in population, which is not a simple goal.”

He also said in 2001:

“Expectations, studies of housing projections, and a cost and feasibility study for the National Family Planning Program have shown that investing 4 billion pounds in this program over fifteen years will save the state 168 billion pounds, which it will spend on education, health, housing, drinking water, sanitation, and food support to accommodate the 10 million people from The population, which will constitute a burden on the state in these areas.”

also said

“Studies have proven that every pound spent on family planning in this sense brings a return of 33.8 pounds, which prompts us to emphasize my call to invest in Egyptian family planning.”

About Dr. Hossam Badrawi

Dr. Hossam Badrawi
He is a politician, intellect, and prominent physician. He is the former head of the Gynecology Department, Faculty of Medicine Cairo University. He conducted his post graduate studies from 1979 till 1981 in the United States. He was elected as a member of the Egyptian Parliament and chairman of the Education and Scientific Research Committee in the Parliament from 2000 till 2005. As a politician, Dr. Hossam Badrawi was known for his independent stances. His integrity won the consensus of all people from various political trends. During the era of former president Hosni Mubarak he was called The Rationalist in the National Democratic Party NDP because his political calls and demands were consistent to a great extent with calls for political and democratic reform in Egypt. He was against extending the state of emergency and objected to the National Democratic Party's unilateral constitutional amendments during the January 25, 2011 revolution. He played a very important political role when he defended, from the very first beginning of the revolution, the demonstrators' right to call for their demands. He called on the government to listen and respond to their demands. Consequently and due to Dr. Badrawi's popularity, Mubarak appointed him as the NDP Secretary General thus replacing the members of the Bureau of the Commission. During that time, Dr. Badrawi expressed his political opinion to Mubarak that he had to step down. He had to resign from the party after 5 days of his appointment on February 10 when he declared his political disagreement with the political leadership in dealing with the demonstrators who called for handing the power to the Muslim Brotherhood. Therefore, from the very first moment his stance was clear by rejecting a religion-based state which he considered as aiming to limit the Egyptians down to one trend. He considered deposed president Mohamed Morsi's decision to bring back the People's Assembly as a reinforcement of the US-supported dictatorship. He was among the first to denounce the incursion of Morsi's authority over the judicial authority, condemning the Brotherhood militias' blockade of the Supreme Constitutional Court. Dr. Hossam supported the Tamarod movement in its beginning and he declared that toppling the Brotherhood was a must and a pressing risk that had to be taken few months prior to the June 30 revolution and confirmed that the army would support the legitimacy given by the people