The government will establish hundreds of clinics and health facilities to offer medical treatment to people in different governorates in the coming period.
This news was broken this week by Minister of Higher Education and Acting Minister of Health, Khaled Abdel Ghaffar.
He said the government would specify 800 plots of land for the construction of these clinics and health facilities across the nation.
The new medical facilities would be part of the Decent Life initiative for the development of the Egyptian countryside, the minister said.
He added that the new move comes within the framework of efforts by the government to roll out health services to people living in these governorates, improve public health and facilitate access to medical services in remote areas.
It is important to note that the Decent Life initiative will seek to offer free health services to people in the areas where the initiative will be implemented.
Minister Abdel Ghaffar underscored the importance of abiding by schedules for the completion of the aforementioned health facilities, Health Ministry Spokesman, Hossam Abdel Ghaffar, said.
The fresh facilities, he added, would operate within the new universal health insurance system, now implemented in one governorate after the other.
He explained that the new facilities would follow third generation standards.
All services inside these facilities, the spokesman said, would be digital and linked in a central manner.
These standards will allow supervisory bodies to closely monitor the performance of the facilities and their workers, the ministry spokesman said.
The Ministry of Health and Population upgraded around 24 hospitals, 1,119 clinics affiliated to it, and 372 ambulance centres within the first phase of the Decent Life initiative.
Spokesman Abdel Ghaffar noted that new services were also introduced to the same facilities, including vaccination services and medicine storage.
The Ministry of Health is also introducing mobile CT scan services to the villages where the Decent Life initiative is being implemented.
These services go to the doorsteps of villagers needing them, especially in remote areas, Spokesman Abdel Ghaffar said.
He added that 369 ambulance centres were upgraded in the villages where the initiative is being implemented.
Some 150 ambulances were deployed at the upgraded centres, Spokesman Abdel Ghaffar said.
He added that these 150 ambulances were the first group in a total of 1,000 ambulances that would be stationed at these medical centres.
Each of the above-mentioned ambulance centres was provided with accommodation for their staff members, Spokesman Abdel Ghaffar said.
They also contain warehouses for the storage of oxygen cylinders, he added.
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