The presidential initiative on supporting primary care units and centres will cost annually LE6 billion in the span of two years, announced Health and Population Minister Khaled Abdel Ghaffar.
The first phase will kickstart within days and will include 251 facilities in 21 governorates to be followed by the second and third phase, added the minister during a press conference held on Thursday.
The minister, meanwhile, put the total number of primary care facilities across Egypt at 5,426.
Such facilities offer preventive, curative and early detection services, he added.
The first phase of “Decent Life” presidential initiative witnessed the establishment and development of nearly 1,018 primary care facilities nationwide, he further said.
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