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Health Ministry
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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.
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?
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
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?
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
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
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.
Health Ministry
7 min read
Heat wave death toll rises to 70, Health Ministry denies meningitis outbreak
Dalia Rabie and Mostafa Mohie
| In a statement on Wednesday, the Health Ministry announced that 70 people had died over the past few
blood donation
8 min read
Struggling for a drop of blood
Mai Shams El-Din
| A woman carried her son as she pleaded with the doctor in charge of Nasser Institute Hospital’s blood
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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
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
News
Al-Nadeem Center for Rehabilitation of Victims of Violence
6 min read
Al-Nadeem Center closure case adjourned as state lawyers present new documents
Egypt-Germany relations
4 min read
Health Ministry asserts report on organ trafficking in Egypt harms national security
Doctors Syndicate
3 min read
Mona Mina released on LE1000 bail after questioning
food subsidies
2 min read
Breast exams mandatory to get subsidized infant formula: Health Ministry
nutrition
3 min read
Armed Forces’ intervention in infant formula shortage temporary solution to larger problem
doctor strikes
7 min read
Doctors launch campaign for ‘free healthcare’ across Egypt
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