Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah El Sisi was briefed during a meeting on Sunday on the latest developments of the ongoing work to develop the Ain Shams University Hospitals area, aiming to turn it into an international medical city at the heart of Cairo.
The area had suffered for long years from difficulties and challenges that had toll on the level of services offered to citizens, before President Sisi made a decision to develop it and turn it into a high-level medical city.
This includes establishing new and advanced medical and administrative infrastructure, creating an attractive work environment, revamping the facility’s entire site and eliminating randomly-built places, as well as automating work in hospitals and bolstering digitalisation of work procedures, Presidency Spokesman Ahmed Fahmy said.
Attending the meeting were Prime Minister Moustafa Madbouli, Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research Ayman Ashour, President’s Advisor for Health and Prevention Mohamed Awad Taj Eddin, Head of the Armed Forces Engineering Authority Maj Gen Ahmed el-Azazi.
President Sisi gave directives for the intensification of action to finalise such a huge and national project, ensuring sustainability of operation, maintenance and the highest level of management, Spokesman Fahmy said.
Action in this direction, President Sisi explained, enhances the state’s goal of providing distinguished medical services to all Egyptians in a tangible and sustainable manner, in addition to promoting the environment of the medical scientific research and bolstering Egypt’s status as a scientific and a medical beacon in the region, Spokesman Fahmy said.
Discussions in the meeting also covered the file of upgrading higher education, which has already witnessed a significant leap at all levels as so indicated by the increase in the number of universities from 49 in 2014 to 92 this year, including state, private, community and technological universities as well as branches of foreign universities.
In this connection, President Sisi stressed the vital importance of this sector in boosting the link between the country’s students and new graduates on the one hand and the rapid global advances in science, technology and communications on the other hand, thereby enabling Egyptian students to participate effectively in the production of knowledge and contribute to placing Egypt on the map of regional and global maps of higher education and scientific research, Spokesman Fahmy said.
