Abla Al-Alfi.. the mother of Egypt’s children
Abla Al-Alfi.. Mother of Egypt’s Children
In the next few days, the world will celebrate “International Women’s Day,” which falls on March 8th every year, during which the United Nations, UNICEF, and the entire world seek to highlight the role of women in achieving Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). It is an international day that the peoples of the world use to support strategies for empowering women everywhere, which makes it one of the steps to strengthen their rights – socially, economically and culturally – to ensure the implementation of the aspirations and hopes of all parts of society.
This year – 2024 – is the second year in a row, in which the Earth Guards participate in the celebration of International Women’s Day, by highlighting the achievements of prominent Egyptian and Arab women and pioneers – scientifically and practically – in their fields; Therefore, in the coming days, the magazine will accompany you through a journey – a series of articles on International Women’s Day – expressing honorable feminist models whose professional career has shone in the skies of Egypt and the Arab world, and this is through achievements that have inspired women of the whole world. So that empowering them will be a just way of life and a form of achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
As for the heroine of this article, she is Professor Dr. Abla Al-Alfi, nicknamed “Mother of Egypt’s Children,”Parliamentary Representative, and Chair of the Subcommittee on Maternal and Child Health and the Population Issue in the Council’s Health Affairs Committee.
She began her professional career by obtaining a Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery with honors from Mansoura University in 1979, then she obtained a doctorate in pediatrics from Mansoura University in 2002, then a fellowship from the Royal College of Pediatrics and Child Health from England in 2004, and other distinguished academic degrees.
With these academic degrees – locally and internationally – Dr. Abla Al-Alfi contributed to medical fields in a way that helps implement Egypt’s vision and ambitions to achieve the goals of sustainable development. It became a pioneer in the field of community pediatrics and neonatology. It also focused on improving early childhood outcomes, in line with the Egyptian reality and implementing high-quality global policies. This was a tangible step in raising the level of health services.
Dr. Abla Al-Alfi is also a member of the Arab Board of Midwifery and Nursing in the League of Arab States, and a member of the Ministerial Committee to Reduce Caesarean Sections, in addition to being the founder and president of the Egyptian Society of Members of the Royal College of Pediatrics and Child Health, and the founder of the “Our Dream and We Will Achieve It” initiative, which specializes in improving the health of Egyptian children – a pioneering experience in the field of family health. And other public positions through which Dr. Abla Alfi makes efforts regarding child and maternal health, and women in general.
Dr. Abla Alfi was able to write her professional and scientific career with letters of light. It was worthy of many honors and many awards, shields and certificates of appreciation. For example, but not limited to, in 2023, she received the Princess Mona Al Hussein Al Hashemite Shield from the Princess Mona College of Nursing Foundation in the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan. In the same year, she received the shield of the Governor of Alexandria. In appreciation of her efforts in improving child health and the population issue in the governorate.
Before this – in 2019 – she won the title of “Mother of Egypt’s Children” from the British Royal College and Egyptian Pediatricians, led by the Cairo University team. Among her most important achievements and efforts to develop thehealth sectorwas her presidency of the first scientific conference of the British Royal College in the Middle East and North Africa, with the participation of 1,200 doctors around the world, and in cooperation with the British Royal College of Pediatrics and the Children’s and Women’s Hospital at the Al-Jalaa Complex for the Armed Forces, which had a significant impact on the medical community.
Dr. Abla Al-Alfi has a career full of achievements, which require pages and pages in order to shed light on all its aspects, which is highlighted by her social, political and cultural status among the women of Egypt and the Arab world. She is a role model and a pioneer in many fields, and thus she deserves to be honored on International Women’s Day.
