Egypt’s president allocates LE600M to carrying out surgeries for patients on waiting lists – Egypt Today

Egypt’s president allocates LE600M to carrying out surgeries for patients on waiting lists – Egypt Today

CAIRO – 4 August 2022: One week after instructing the government to expand the , President Abdel Fatah al-Sisi held a meeting Thursday with senior officials to bolster healthcare services provided to low-income citizens as well as support to university students. The president instructed developing a financial system that would improve the income of doctors and improve their working conditions, especially those with rare specializations and others operating in remote areas. The president was briefed on the status of COVID-19 nationwide as well as that of the vaccination rate. Further, he learnt about the progress in implementing the various presidential initiatives in the healthcare sector, particularly those pertaining to the eradication of hepatitis C, supporting women health, and acceleration of performing surgeries on patients in critical conditions and are on . The number of patients on those lists, who have undergone surgeries within such initiative since 2018, is 1.2 million at a total cost of LE 11.6 billion. Those were carried out at 477 hospitals. On that front, the president instructed the allocation of LE 600 million to the initiative, and better raising the awareness of target citizens on how to benefit from the project. The president also stressed the