Egypt approved raising allocations to the healthcare sector by EGP260 million (16.54 million USD) in current fiscal year 2020/2021 to increase hospitals’ capacity of intensive care beds to 1,000 and introduce further 500 ventilators.
There is a growth in public investments directed to the projects of the Ministry of Health in the next fiscal year 2021/2022, for them to amount to EGP47.5 billion (over 3 billion USD), an increase of 205% compared to FY20/2021.
The most important programs and initiatives of the health sector in the next fiscal year are to provide the necessary funds to enter service hospitals and to accelerate the rates of implementation of health facilities under construction and development to quickly enter service and start to benefit citizens from them.
To know more, read the full news article originally published in Egypt Today.
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