Egypt's Health minister heads for France to probe boosting cooperation

CAIRO - 4 September 2020: The Health and Population Minister Hala Zayed headed for the French capital Paris on Saturday  accompanied by Presidential Adviser for Health Affairs Dr. Awad Tag Eddin to discuss ways of boosting cooperation in the health sector.

Zayed will sign a memorandum of understanding between Egypt's National Cancer Institute and France's Gustave Roussy Institute of Oncology.

The first ever MoU calls for swapping the expertise in tumor treatment to Egypt as part of a presidential initiative to back Egyptian women's health, themed " 100 Million Healthy Lives."


A diagnostic clinic for breast cancer will be opened in the Egyptian institute in cooperation with France's Gustave Roussy, said Spokesman for the Health Ministry Khaled Megahed.

He added that women can undergo all required medical examinations in the clinic in eight hours only.

The upgrading of the institute cost LE150 million Egyptian, according to the spokesman.

The Health Ministry said that 318 new coronavirus cases were detected in Egypt over the past 24 hours, bringing the total number of cases to 289,353.

In a statement late Friday, Spokesman for the Health Ministry Khaled Megahed said 11 patients have died from the virus over the past 24 hours, raising the death toll to 16,766.

As many as 651 patients were discharged from hospitals after receiving necessary medical care, taking the number of recoveries to 240,976, he added.