Health Ministry spox on specialized doctors ‘loan’ to Saudi Arabia: I don’t know anything about this decision

Health Ministry spox on specialized doctors ‘loan’ to Saudi Arabia: I don’t know anything about this decision

The Saudi Health Ministry and the General Organization for Teaching Hospitals and Institutes (GOTHI) in Egypt signed a cooperation protocol last week to dispatch medical professionals in “rare specialties” to Saudi Arabia. The move comes at a time when Egypt is grappling with a scarcity of specialized doctors due to a general trend of doctors emigrating, according to members of the House Health Committee and the Doctors Syndicate board, who […]

The post Health Ministry spox on specialized doctors ‘loan’ to Saudi Arabia: I don’t know anything about this decision first appeared on Mada Masr.The Saudi Health Ministry and the General Organization for Teaching Hospitals and Institutes (GOTHI) in Egypt signed a cooperation protocol last week to dispatch medical professionals in “rare specialties” to Saudi Arabia.

The move comes at a time when Egypt is grappling with a scarcity of specialized doctors due to a general trend of doctors emigrating, according to members of the House Health Committee and the Doctors Syndicate board, who said that they were not made aware of the agreement.

The agreement between the Saudi Health Ministry and the Health Ministry-affiliated authority was signed on March 4 on the sidelines of the Egyptian-Saudi joint committee meeting chaired by both