Two Omani citizens in Egypt guaranteed COVID treatment by Sultanate’s Embassy | Times of Oman

  • Date: 03-Apr-2021
  • Source: Times of Oman
  • Sector:Healthcare
  • Country:Oman
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Two Omani citizens in Egypt guaranteed COVID treatment by Sultanate’s Embassy | Times of Oman

Muscat: The Sultanate's Embassy in Egypt has confirmed that the Sultanate's government will guarantee treatment for two citizens who contracted COVID-19 while they were in Egypt. The Sultanate's Embassy in Cairo, Arab Republic of Egypt issued a statement regarding the audio clip circulating for an Omani citizen in Egypt that stated: "With reference to the audio clip circulating on social media, the Embassy would like to inform you that the citizen arrived two months ago to Cairo with his son for the purpose of medical treatment, and he recovered, but he preferred to stay." In March, the Embassy interviewed the citizen's son and helped him in facilitating his father's admission to one of the specialised isolation hospitals, and he was asked to provide the embassy with some documents explaining his father's health status, and immediately after he left the embassy's headquarters, a phone call came from the citizen stating that his son was also infected with Coronavirus. On Thursday, April 1, 2021, his son provided the embassy with the required documents, in which he stated that he had conducted an examination confirming that he had pneumonia due to the Coronavirus on March 20, 2021, and he was referred directly to