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Coronavirus • 17 min read

From the COVID-19 operations room: How has the Health Ministry handled the ‘war’?

Hossam Bahgat | Everything changed on March 6, the day the health minister returned to Egypt.

1 April 2020

Coronavirus • 7 min read

On the frontlines of COVID-19: Chronicles of a head nurse

Rana Mamdouh | “We’re all at risk and we have to work. We’re not gonna let people die.”

26 March 2020

Coronavirus • 15 min read

Prisons in the time of COVID-19

Hadeer El-Mahdawy | “Right now we’re looking at a black hole that is swallowing the entire prison system.”

20 March 2020

Coronavirus • 17 min read

Your guide to coronavirus in Egypt

Rana Mamdouh | Our guide to help you navigate the COVID-19 pandemic in Egypt.

19 March 2020

Coronavirus • 8 min read

Egypt authorities take additional measures to curb coronavirus spread and stimulate economy

Damietta recorded the first confirmed case of a doctor testing positive for COVID-19.

19 March 2020

Coronavirus • 9 min read

How one doctor volunteered to transfer a coronavirus patient when no one else would

Rana Mamdouh | "Had I thought logically, I probably wouldn’t have done what I did.”

18 March 2020

Coronavirus • 18 min read

An interview on COVID-19 with virologist Islam Hussein

Sarah Rifky | There is a correlation between COVID-19 infection and smoking.

14 March 2020

Coronavirus • 17 min read

Egypt confirms 2nd coronavirus case, coordinates with China and Saudi Arabia as officials criticize gov’t response

MP Magdy Morshid says that the gov't has not treated the virus as an emerging global pandemic.

3 March 2020

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

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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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