10 Women Friendly Public Health Centers in Egypt

The Women Friendly Services project is successfully expanding into five new public healthcare units in cooperation with the Egyptian Ministry of Health and Population.

With this expansion, we designed an updated support programme to be implemented in healthcare units in order to strengthen service providers' capacities. Beside covering the basic needs in the programme, we added in this support programme a specific component on "how to communicate news to patients properly", to enhance the capacities of the doctors and nurses in promoting suitable sexual reproductive healthcare (SRH) and family planning services adequate for women's needs. 

Mental health has become a priority, especially with the frustrating economic and societal conditions globally; doctors and nurses struggle with how to deliver bad news to the patient. In our program, we tailored a specific section on this topic and how to handle the patient right at the moment, including dealing with an angry patient, how to perform in different situations, explaining procedures to the patients and their families, and what the common mistakes are and how to prevent them.

This comes from a strong belief and extensive research we’ve done on mental health in Egypt, which made us more aware of the importance of such components in SRH services being covered in the training delivered to doctors, nurses, and community leaders in the healthcare units we work with.

With your continuous support, we shall be able to expand into more healthcare units and produce more innovative solutions and products to help improve the services provided to women in Egypt.

Thank you for always making it possible for us to help women receive the services they are entitled to with the highest quality.

Coming soon: the inclusion of women’s clubs in the healthcare units, under the umbrella of the Women Friendly Services project.

During its implementation in the public healthcare centers in Egypt, the Women Friendly Services (WFS) project seeks not only to promote the quality and accessibility of the Sexual and Reproductive Health (SRH) services, but to identify the main challenges that women face regarding their rights in healthcare system. 

Based on practical observations and assessments for the services provided to the Gender-Based Violence (GBV) survivors , the WFS project identified a huge gap between the efforts done on a national level to combat violence against women including the establishment of a clear , systematic, detailed referral system or a national track for the survivors of it; and the practical implementation which is still lagging behind. In reality, there is still a lot more to be done to ensure the effectiveness of this pathway and its capacity to meet expectations.

Strongly believing that supportive policy briefs and research are as important as working on ground directly with beneficiaries, WFS project issued a Policy Brief on the Referral Pathway for Gender- Based violence survivors. In Which we cover the most crucial challenges in this regard and present recommendations on how to face them on the governmental and non-governmental levels, with the existing resources and in the most effective way. 

You can visit the Policy Brief by clicking Here.

By supporting the project, you will enable us to expand the implementation of WFS in more public health centers in Egypt, providing women with the services and the support they need (psychological and medical). As well as, working more and presenting innovative solutions to end the GBV cycle.