Dr. Khaled Abdel Ghaffar, Minister of Higher Education and Chargé d’Affairs confirmed Minister of Health Alexandria is one of the large governorates and has 157 hospitals between university and Ministry of Health hospitals, which are spread throughout the governorate in the east and west and serve 6 million citizens, in addition to 11 university hospitals, which are a huge system with more than four thousand beds, this came during the minister’s visit For the city of Alexandria and follow-up to a number of hospitals.
During his tour in Alexandria, the minister indicated that the visit came to check on the services provided to citizens and to follow up on the services provided by the hospital, which is the second capital of Egypt.
The minister explained that Al-Amiriya Hospital is an important point of the visit, because it is one of the old hospitals, which were built in the sixties, which is something that needs constant follow-up and maintenance, and they are places that need to be reviewed, which is the purpose of the visit.
The minister pointed out that the ministry provides its services to 100 million citizens, and the hope that Egyptians have in treatment is very large, and the goal is always integration between health service providers, bad in the Ministry of Health or university or private hospitals, because the patient needs advanced devices, and we are now in the process of supplying MRI and X-ray machines (CT) Because the hospital receives emergency cases and road accidents, especially during the summer periods, he stressed that the system is in continuous and significant development.
Abdel Ghaffar stressed that during the last conference with President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi, the strategy to deal with eliminating waiting lists, presidential initiatives, early detection of cancerous diseases, kidney disease, and others became clear, and they are quick plans to reduce the amount of suffering that the patient is exposed to, and at the same time a system Health insurance is working in full swing in 6 governorates and will continue in turn in the rest of the governorates, and therefore the mandates of President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi come, to provide material and human services to serve our people in all governorates.
He continued: “A large part of our success in the Corona crisis is the unified procurement system and the provision of a large amount of capabilities, at competitive prices, which made us deal with the pandemic with great comfort, in light of a global crisis with medicines and medical supplies, there is no doubt that the unified procurement system, the Medicines Authority and the food system A great addition to Egypt, and there are mandates from the president to continue presidential initiatives, although we have 11 presidential initiatives, but the president has approved a new initiative, which is the early detection of lung, prostate, colon and cervical cancer, and this confirms the continuation of presidential initiatives.