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Dr.. Hossam Badrawi gives the opening speech for the workshop on Caesarean section in Egypt and the reasons for its spread

At the invitation of Dr. Abla Al-Alfi, President of the Egyptian Association of Members of the British Royal College of Pediatrics and a member of the Health Committee of the Egyptian Parliament, Dr. Hossam Badrawi, the opening speech of the workshop on caesarean section in Egypt and the reasons for its spread as an alternative to natural childbirth that is less dangerous for the mother.
Dr. Hossam pointed out how to spread health awareness, study and analyze the case and adopt practical initiatives to confront the ease of caesarean section in Egypt until it became a culture among new mothers and a time-saving solution for doctors. The rate of caesarean section in Egypt reaches 62% of births, although the healthy percentage is only 15%, which increases childbirth complications and multiple negative effects, and increases the cost. Dr. has indicated. Hossam said that the rate of cesarean delivery in the whole world has doubled, reaching 30% in many European countries and the United States, but Egypt still enjoys a double increase.
His Excellency pointed out the importance of taking care of the midwife, who is the nurse specialized in taking care of the pregnant woman during natural childbirth, and her vital role in the Egyptian countryside, while laying the foundations for her training and the system for accrediting her certificate and licensing.
Dr. Abla Al-Alfi, a member of the House of Representatives, confirmed that the workshop aims to come up with comprehensive recommendations and policies that work to reduce the rates of unnecessary caesarean sections in Egypt by applying a comprehensive approach that includes training doctors, nursing, natural birth aids and family counseling providers in the community and raising community awareness, especially pregnant women. The danger of unnecessary caesarean sections and its negative effects on the mother and the child. This comes in line with the state’s plan for the development of the family and early childhood and in implementation of the presidential initiative New Day, which cares for premature babies and newborns, with a focus on the importance of the first thousand days in a child’s life.
It is worth noting that the round table includes a number of leaders of the Ministry of Health and international bodies, professors of obstetrics and gynecology and children from universities and civil society institutions, in addition to a number of gentlemen and members of the Health Committee of the House of Representatives to codify the legislative and very important aspect of eliminating this epidemic that destroys the health of the Egyptian people.

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