Egyptian Prime Minister Moustafa Madbouli asserted the importance of intensifying efforts during the current stage to resume all plans of the Egyptian Authority for Unified Procurement (UPA) to resume meeting the needs of medicine and medical supplies and achieve integration with the African brethren within the framework of the keenness of President Abdel Fattah El Sisi to achieve such fundamental aim in the different sectors and fields.
This came during Madbouli’s meeting with UPA Chairman Bahaa El Din Zeidan on Tuesday.
The meeting tackled a number of issues that the UPA works on implementing in co-operation with the bodies concerned.
Zeidan gave a brief presentation on an initiative to detect hearing deficiencies in a number of African countries and the vision of the 2nd version of Africa Health Excon 2024 in addition to other files.
He also tackled the stage implementation of a project of strategic warehouses for medical products and machines, pointing out that this project is one of the national ones adopted by the Egyptian government and the political leadership to improve the health care sector.
The meeting also took up co-operation between the UPA and Sudan, pointing out to reaching a framework agreement between the Egyptian Sudanese Company for Development and Multiple Investments and the UPA to provide medicine and all medical supplies that are wanted as strategic commodities in Sudan.
