Activities and Services :
Institutions Responsible for Thalassemia Care In Egypt
1-University Hospitals (Mainly Cairo University & Ain Shams).
2-The Egyptian Thalassaemia Association (ETA).
3- Ministry of Health
• School Medical Insurance.
• The Medical Council.
• New Centers of Thalassaemia promoted by Mrs. SUSAN MUBARAK
4-The Egyptian Red Crescent Society Centers.
Activities For the Physicians
- Scientific Meetings.
- Support the development of Thalassemia Associations in different Governorates of Egypt
- Participates in the training programs to the physician in the new thalassemic centers of Egypt.
- Sponsors regularly international conferences and workshops on thalassaemia in Egypt.
- Population awareness of the disease through the mass media.
- Printing Booklets on Thalassemia Diagnosis and Treatment Distributed to Doctors in Different Egyptian Governorates in 1996.
- Training on Thalassemia Diagnosis and Management for the Doctors Responsible for Severe Thalassemia Centers in Cairo Ordered by Our First Lady Suzan Mubarak .
- Scientific Meeting on Thalassemia in El Fayoum City.
- Scientific meetings and promotion for the development of Thalassemia Centers in Zagazig & Benha, Cairo Hospitals, EL Fayoum, Helwan, etc.
Activities For the Patients.
- Improve the patients and parents awareness of the disease treatment and prevention through booklets and meetings.
- Financial and social support to the patients.
- Help in the prenatal diagnosis of thalassaemia for the pregnant mothers.
- Regular financial and social support to the patients.
- Participates in managing Thalassemics in the schools through the Medical Insurance
- Support all the different modalities of treatment (blood, vaccination, DFO pumps… etc.
- Increases the awareness of the patients and their families to the disease and its treatment.
- Participates in the management of thalassemic students of different Egyptian Governorates (MIS).
- It Participates in the Management of School Children suffering from Thalassemia through the Medical Insurance for Schools.
- Establishing a Prenatal Diagnostic Center in Abou El Rish Hospital
- Continuous supply of the Desferal, syringes and butterfly needles.
- Booklets on the disease and its management.
Ministerial Decree No. 60 in 20/3/1999.
- Employment of Graduated and non-graduated after rehabilitation thalassaemics and SCD patients in Governmental and Private Jobs by 5% of the total needed for the Job