Prototype for model, advanced countryside home considered during presidential review meeting on countryside development plan
President Abdel Fattah El Sisi has urged enhancing the factors of success for the Countryside Upgrading Project, including through the verification of data that provide the state agencies concerned with a clear vision and exact knowledge of the project’s aspects and details.
Such verified databases, the president stressed, factor in the success and efficiency of efforts on the ground to upgrade countryside villages nationwide, noting that this project is meant to realise all-out development of the aspects of living conditions and the services offered to a broad sector of the people, amounting in size to almost one half of Egypt’s population.
The president’s remarks came during his meeting Sunday with Prime Minister Moustafa Madbouli, Local Development Minister Mahmoud Sharaawi, Health Minister Hala Zayed, Housing Minister Assem al-Gazzar and the Armed Forces Engineering Authority’s Chairman Ihab el-Far.
The meeting was devoted to following up the executive position of the National Project for Upgrading Countryside Villages now under way within the framework of the Haya Karima (Decent Life) initiative, Presidency Spokesman Ambassador Bassam Radi said in a statement yesterday.
During the meeting, the president gave directives for doubling the number of medical caravan vehicles, mobile clinics and ambulances in service under the Decent Life initiative so as to boost the comprehensive medical care services for citizens in the villages of the countryside.
In this connection, President Sisi urged that all health units in the targeted countryside areas undergo upgrading and that new hospitals be set up and provided with modern medical equipment, Spokesman Radi said.
The presidential directives followed a review of blueprint by specialised agencies for the development of all rural centres, especially regarding the implementation of medical treatment projects under the comprehensive health insurance system, the spokesman said.
The blueprint, he added, involves the building of new central hospitals and the upgrading of existing ones and other medical facilities and health units.
The president then reviewed the requirements of projects for replacing and renewing water stations and networks and the progress of water treatment and drainage works in villages, Spokesman Radi said. Also put for consideration in the meeting was a proposed engineering prototype for an advanced countryside house.
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