Overview of health aid offered by Egypt to fellow African states

CAIRO – 29 November 2020: The Egyptian national TV aired on Sunday a report about the health aid offered by Egypt to fellow African states.

In 2019, Egypt launched an initiative to cure one million hepatitis C patients at 18 African countries. Until present, medical equipment and medicine have been transported to nine of those states offering treatment to 250,000 patients.

The first round took place in Chad, Uganda, Ethiopia, and Sudan, and was exclusive to signing memoranda of understanding to carry out the initiative. The second one – launched on October 8 - was in Chad as screening devices were delivered as well as treatment doses that would suffice 3,000 patients.

The third round began in Eritrea on November 24 whereas Egypt supplied 1,000 PCR test devices, treatment doses that would suffice 1,000 hepatitis C patients, and 10,000 blood analysis kits.

In September, the Ministry of Health and Population said that up to 15,000 Chadian people were screened as part of the Egyptian Initiative since the implementation of the initiative last October.

In a press release, Megahed said that the Egyptian medical delegation that traveled to Chad inspected a number of facilities in N'Djamena ahead of starting its mission.

Megahed added that a meeting was held in which a number of Egyptian and Chadian officials had attended including Chadian Health Minister Abdoulaye Sabre Fadoul and Egyptian embassy representative to Chad Mohhamed Orabi to discuss setting a work plan to the initiative in the coming period.

Megahed also said that the initiative managed to examine 15,441 Chadians since October in which 715 were found to be suffering from Hepatitis C, adding that they received the medications required.

Meanwhile, Fadoul thanked Zayed over her continuous support to Chad's health sector and the Egyptian teams over their efforts to implement Sisi 's health initiative in Chad.