National plan for facing population explosion issue

Egypt's Minister of Health and Population Mohamed Awad Tagulddin said that his ministry is adopting a comprehensive national plan to face the population issues during the next stage.

The plan comprises several axes foremost of which are cutting down the population growth rate and redistributing the people according to the geographical system in all the governorates throughout the country.

These statements came during the minister's meeting yesterday with National Democratic Party NDP youth secretariat under Maged El-Sherbeeni within the activities of Egyptian village weeks under the title "Population Explosion and its Impacts on Development."

According to recent statistics, the great majority of Egypt's population is between the age of 18 to 35 years, added Tagulddin, noting that they are youths who should shoulder the responsibility.

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