Premarriage Checkup Center
 

Aimed Sector

q     PCC-NIH receive the checkup cases of:

  • Youth of both gender going to be married for full premarital checkup and genetic counseling.

  • Pregnant mothers that have a risky pregnancy to get babies with inherited diseases. To do prenatal diagnoses tests..

  • Couples had a child with inherited disease for diagnosis and treatment; and do genetic counseling for assessment of recurrence risk rate in next pregnancy.

  • Couples had general health problems that may affect the marriage for advice and treatment.

Our Aim

I. Prevention

¨     Medical checkup include:

 

  • General health.

  • Endocrinology.

  • Andrology.

  • Gynecology.

  • Laboratory.

  • Genetic Counseling.

  

q     Genetic Counseling : For consanguineous marriage and families with offspring family history of inherited diseases.

  1. Premarital genetic counseling (do a pedigree on 3 levels and determine the possibility of genetic diseases in the offspring of this marriage and prove it by genetic testing in case of need.

  2. Prenatal diagnosis in risky marriage.

  3. Determine recurrence risk.

  4. Diagnosis and treatment of affected child.

¨     Full Medical Report:

1. General health.

2. Reproductive health.

3. Genetic Counseling.

II. Education

Communication with youth through:

  • Our website: Education, orientation and answer the questions of youth by consultants in every branch through our website on the internet.

Websites

Social Aim

  1. Aim to:

  • Decrease the Handicapped Children rate in our country.

  • Decrease the rate of divorce in new families that has been reached 34.5%.

  • Change the attitude of the community as regard the increased birth rate problem to be quality not quantity.

  • Change the attitude of consanguineous marriage in the area.

  • Change the bad attitude as female genital circumcision.

  • Introduction of sex education that is a dilemma in the area.

  1. Religion view: "Do Not be shy, go now", Voice Of Al-Azhar, Magazine

  2. History: Pharaohs papyrus say that Premarital Checkup was an Ancient Egyptian procedure. 

Publications

BMJ

Taiwan, Turkey, Egypt, Spain, Portugal, Italy, and Brazil all have a form of premarital medical examination. China …

February – 2003

  • "A reliable tool for low cost PMTs", Dr/ Tarek Rashed Khater, BMJ (3-October-05).

http://bmj.bmjjournals.com/cgi/eletters/331/7519/747#118266

www.nchpeg.org/eduresources/meetings/ 2005meeting/NCHPEG_2005_Annual_Meeting_Abstracts_Posters.pdf

 

 

  • TareK Rashed Khater, Director PCC-NIH and Associate Trustee EPGS. Premarriage Counseling (on activity of Premarriage Checkup Center Nasser Institute Hospital and Egyptian Pediatric Genetic Society) Conference of NCHPEG 8th Annual Meeting in Bethesda, Maryland, USA. 27-28 January 2005. www.nchpeg.org

 

  • Egypt Leading Experience Premarital Tests Dr/ Tarek Rashed Khater, BMJ   (20 November 2004)

http://bmj.bmjjournals.com/cgi/eletters/329/7475/1115#86117

http://www.ems.org.eg/KASET_NAGAH/news_2.htm

http://www.alexdoctors.org/news/details.asp?id=50

  • EMISPHER International Dissemination Conference on “Public Health in the Euro-Mediterranean region” and Consortium meeting Cairo, Egypt 19-22 February 2004. Dr/ Tarek Rashed,  Director of  PCC-NIH, "Telemedicine Facilitating Premarital Bioinformation" Link to:

http://bmj.bmjjournals.com/cgi/eletters/328/7444/875#56249

http://www.emispher.org/login.do

  • Akhbar El Yom Newspaper, Hend Fatehy, "Premarital Checkup to avoid inherited diseases"; Issue No. 3086,  27 December 2003, Science and Technology page, Page 16.

  • Al-Ahram Hebdo, Chahinaz Gheith & Bouchra Chiboub, L'examen du bonheur conjugal, No 466-9 année, 13-19 août 2003, page 24. http://hebdo.ahram.org.eg/arab/ahram/2003/8/13/soci0.htm

  • XIX International Congress of genetics 6-11 July 2003 in Melbourne Australia, Dr/ Tarek Rashed Khater, director of PCC-NIH, "Premarriage checkup In Egypt", link to: http://www.genunet1.org/IGC2003/abstracts/additional/GE2003abstract00431.htm /http://www.geneticscongress2003.com

  • British Medical Journal, Dr/ Tarek Rashed Khater, "Premarriage checkup In Egypt"; Issue No. 326, February 2003: on BMJ electronic journal On the web: http://bmj.com/cgi/eletters/326/7383/277#29343

  • Al-Ahram Weekly Newspaper, Reham El-Adawy , "To marry or not to marry?"; Issue No. 601, 29 August - 4 Sept. 2002, living page. http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2002/601/li1.htm  

  • Middle East On Line, Dr/ Tarek Rashed, http://www.middle-east-online.com/egypt/?id=5852

  • Al-Etehad Journal "Emirates", Zein Ibrahim," Premarital Checkup to Avoid Divorce"; Issue No. 9855, 29 June 2002, Donia Al-Etehad Page 4.

  • Al-Alam Al-Youm Journal, Mohamed Karim, "The First Premarriage Help Website"; Issue No. 3463, 17 June 2002, Communications Page 6.

  • Kolenas "Lebanon", Nour Abdel-Aziz,  "Love in Laboratory Test", Issue No. 687, Year 13, 10-15 July 2002, Page 32-34.

  • Hawa Magazine "Egypt", Naglaa Abu-Zeid, "Avoid Inherited Diseases For healthy Offspring"; Issue No. 2360, 15 December 2001. Page 22-24.

  • Sawt Al-Azhar Journal, "The First Premarital Checkup Center"; Issue No. 97, year 2, 3 August 2001.Page 2.

  • British Medical Journal, Dr/ Tarek Rashed Khater, electronic rapid response on an article under the title of "The medical regulation of marriage"; Issue No. 322, 1 June 2001: on BMJ electronic journal On the web:

 http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/322/7297/1281/a

  • Hawa Magazine "Egypt", Marwa Lotfy, "Unchecked marriage is unreliable"; Issue No. 2319, 3 March 2001. Page 26-28.
Membership
  • Egyptian pediatric Genetic Society
  • National Coalition for Health professional Education in Genetics
  • Genetic Alliance Organization

Contact Information
Address :

7A Dep., Naser Institute Hospital For Research and Treatment, Kornich El-Nile street, Aghakhan, Shoubra P.O. Box:11241

 Cairo, Egypt

 Tel. +202-2038874, Fax +202-2039236
 
Contact person :

Dr/ Tarek Rashed - Director, PCC-NIH   http://myprofile.cos.com/tarek_khater 

Arabic site