CAIRO – Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah El Sisi followed up on Saturday the implementation status of a project to establish an industrial complex for prosthesis in Egypt.
During a meeting with the officials concerned, Sisi stressed the need to create an integrated system for producing prosthetic or artificial limbs, giving special attention to entrenching local manufacturing, embracing higher standards of training, while making the best use of excellent foreign expertise.
Sisi also directed the officials to create a comprehensive database for people living with physical disabilities nationwide, according to a statement by Presidential Spokesman Bassam Rady.
He also underlined the importance of introducing the academic specialties dealing with prosthesis and physical therapy into the syllabi of the modern scientific colleges recently established in Egypt, with a view to building a national technological incubator dedicated to manufacturing artificial limbs.
The president also instructed the bodies concerned to offer a standard integrated package of high-level medical services to physically disabled citizens, to help merge them in society.
