Health Minister Fires Hospital Director after Death of Sudanese Patient

On Saturday, the Egyptian Minister of Health Dr. Hala Zayed decided to dismiss director of El Matareya Educational Hospital, for his failure to fulfill his work duties, against the backdrop of the death of a Sudanese patient inside the hospital due to the lack of medical service provided to him.

In a video circulating on social media, a Sudanese man found dead on his bed inside El Matareya hospital amid a complete negligence of the hospital medical staff.

As a result, the health minister ordered the formation of a high committee to carry out investigation and take all legal measures over the incident.

In a statement, Dr. Zayed assured that all patient have right to obtain medical service, in light of the State's permanent endeavor to provide the highest levels of medical care in hospitals, in addition to tightening the supervision through inspection committees at all hospitals to ensure that the best medical service is provided to patients.

Egypt's and coronavirus

Egypt registered on Friday 1,577 new coronavirus cases, bringing the total cases to 41,303 since the beginning of the virus outbreak.

“Forty-five more deaths were confirmed; raising the total number to 1,422,” Khaled Megahed, the Health Ministry’s spokesman, said in a statement.

“Up to 11,108 coronavirus patients have recovered so far,” the spokesman said.

“As many as 417 Egyptians were among the recovered patients today,” he added.

Also, the number of coronavirus patients who had now been retested for the virus and had received negative results has reached 12,493 after getting excellent treatment in coordination with the World Health Organization (WHO).

Earlier, Dr. John Jabbour, the WHO representative, noted that in Egypt, 85% of the positive cases had recovered without treatment because their symptoms were simple, he said.

According to Jabbour, Egypt faces many challenges, topped by coordinating among all the health-related sectors and making the best use of the state’s revenues in the fight against the pandemic, in addition to addressing the social stigma associated with the disease and supporting the medical staff who are standing on the front-lines and risking their own lives to treat infected patients.

The WHO official urged all the people to follow protective measures and stay at home to protect themselves and their loved ones against the disease.

The ministry has stepped up precautionary measures in the affected governorates and intensified campaigns to spread awareness about infectious diseases.

Megahed stressed that the ministry announced all positive and suspected cases nationwide.

The ministry raises its preparedness at all the country’s ports and airports to monitor the virus developments, receiving inquires from citizens about the virus through its hotline 105 or 15335.