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Coronavirus • 22 min read
Here’s how the government wants us to coexist with COVID-19
Rana Mamdouh | The government made an about-face in strategy on April 23.
20 May 2020
Coronavirus • 8 min read
After spike in infections among medical staff, doctors halt work at recently designated quarantine site until demands met
"Swabs are only for those who’ll work. If you’re not going to work, go home."
18 May 2020
Coronavirus • 17 min read
PCR testing to identify COVID-19 cases: What is Egypt’s policy?
Rana Mamdouh | The availability of testing appears to vary across government sectors, the medical community
28 April 2020
Coronavirus • 14 min read
After doctors blame administration for COVID-19 clusters at hospitals, Health Ministry circulates new procedures in internal memo
The index case for the latter two hospitals is still unknown
21 April 2020
Coronavirus • 13 min read
What does the coronavirus pandemic tell us about Egypt’s healthcare system?
Rana Mamdouh | After this crisis, the state must reevaluate the healthcare budget and wages for doctors and nurses
9 April 2020
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
 
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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
Coronavirus • 10 min read
No backup sent to hospital after most of its medical staff contract coronavirus
2 June 2020
Coronavirus • 8 min read
1st quarantine hospital halts admission after more than half of staff contracts COVID-19
27 April 2020
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
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