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Coronavirus • 7 min read

Coronavirus quarantine in Marsa Matrouh for China evacuees, sources say doctors, nurses tricked into the assignment

A medical source said the ministry had assured doctors the assignment was unrelated to coronavirus

2 February 2020

healthcare reform • 17 min read

Doctor assignments: Will the new system improve government healthcare?

Mostafa Mohie | Over the years, the takleef system was abandoned or constricted in most fields, besides medicine.

8 January 2020

bombings • 10 min read

The National Cancer Institute was in crisis long before the car bomb attack

Mostafa Mohie | The institute's medical services and research capacity have been steadily deteriorating for years.

20 August 2019

Health Ministry • 10 min read

Health Ministry account refutes witnesses, medical reports, insists electric shock did not cause doctor’s death

Omar Said | Did Sara Abu Bakr die as a result of ministry negligence or natural causes?

19 October 2018

healthcare reform • 13 min read

One resignation after another: Why are doctors disappearing from government hospitals?

Mohamed Hamama | Recent months have seen a spike in the number of Health Ministry doctors requesting unpaid leave or resigning

30 September 2018

Doctors Syndicate • 15 min read

Collective action anesthetized: The Doctors Syndicate from 2016-2018

Hadeer El-Mahdawy | How has the Doctors Syndicate gone from a vehicle for mobilization to beset by low participation?

23 May 2018

health insurance • 20 min read

Universal health insurance: Gateway to privatization or protector against high treatment costs?

Mohamed Gad | Currently up for vote in Parliament, the bill has been met with considerable controversy

21 November 2017

television • 18 min read

State TV ad campaigns and the natural evolution of the ‘good citizen’

Leila Arman | From being asked to not be burdensome to being told to kill our dissident self with our own hands

4 August 2017

women's health • 13 min read

Why do so many Egyptian women not breastfeed?

Karoline Kamel | Amid social and economic pressures, breastfeeding rates fall far below international recommendations.

31 October 2016

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Opinion

Hussein Kamal

Health is a public ‘good’

Health economics has been a field of economics that has attracted great interest since the publication

28 June 2015

Heba Wanis

Egypt will not patent new hepatitis C drug

Local newspapers recently reported that the first batch of sofosbuvir, the new drug for treating the

23 May 2014

News

doctor deaths • 7 min read

At doctors’ memorial service, anger and calls for health minister to resign

23 January 2020

Al-Nadeem Center for Rehabilitation of Victims of Violence • 6 min read

Al-Nadeem Center closure case adjourned as state lawyers present new documents

7 December 2018

Egypt-Germany relations • 4 min read

Health Ministry asserts report on organ trafficking in Egypt harms national security

20 August 2017

Doctors Syndicate • 3 min read

Mona Mina released on LE1000 bail after questioning

3 December 2016

food subsidies • 2 min read

Breast exams mandatory to get subsidized infant formula: Health Ministry

11 September 2016

nutrition • 3 min read

Armed Forces’ intervention in infant formula shortage temporary solution to larger problem

3 September 2016

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