{"id":200616,"date":"2025-06-21T07:50:58","date_gmt":"2025-06-21T05:50:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egypt\/egypt-7-9-million-children-screened-under-early-detection-and-treatment-of-hearing-impairment-initiative-for-newborns\/"},"modified":"2025-06-21T07:50:58","modified_gmt":"2025-06-21T05:50:58","slug":"egypt-7-9-million-children-screened-under-early-detection-and-treatment-of-hearing-impairment-initiative-for-newborns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egypt\/egypt-7-9-million-children-screened-under-early-detection-and-treatment-of-hearing-impairment-initiative-for-newborns\/","title":{"rendered":"Egypt: 7.9 Million Children Screened Under Early Detection and Treatment of Hearing Impairment Initiative for Newborns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"38\">The Ministry of Health and Population announced that 7,909,570 children have received hearing screening services as part of the President&#8217;s initiative for the early detection and treatment of hearing impairment in newborns, since its launch in September 2019.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"55\">Dr. Hossam Abdel Ghaffar, the official spokesperson for the Ministry of Health and Population, noted an increase in the number of auditory referral hospitals and centers to 34, up from 30, across all governorates of the Republic. These&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202506090091.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 North Africa <a title=\"Egypt\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/north-africa\/egypt\/\">Egypt<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ministry of Health and Population announced that 7,909,570 children have received hearing screening services as part of the President&#8217;s initiative for the early detection and treatment of hearing impairment in newborns, since its launch in September 2019. Dr. Hossam Abdel Ghaffar, the official spokesperson for the Ministry of Health and Population, noted an increase [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":200617,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[338],"tags":[258,256,7371,23424,7473,4697,415,6636,15630,9890,5118,23754,257,15436,254,12416],"class_list":["post-200616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-egypt","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-children","tag-detection","tag-early","tag-egypt","tag-egypt-news","tag-hearing","tag-impairment","tag-initiative","tag-million","tag-newborns","tag-news","tag-screened","tag-south-africa-today","tag-treatment"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200616\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/200617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}