Items related to healthcare

Poor healthcare, surgical malpractice causing incontinence in women
Nadeen Shaker 04 Feb 2013
One day, Ne’ma Barbary, 27, woke up to learn that she could no longer control herself when she went to the...
Strike of doctors of Al-Zawia al-Hamra hospital, Cairo, 2 October 2012. Doctors went on a partial strike in 540 public hospitals to call for higher salaries, securing hospitals, and increase of health budget. 
Health minister: 4,000 hospitals should be demolished
Egypt Independent 21 Jan 2013
Health Minister Mohamed Mostafa Hamed has said that 200 hospitals and 3,800 health clinics around the country need to...
Tabibi 24/7: Pediatric care delivered to your doorstep
Heba Helmy 28 Nov 2012
Anyone who lives in Cairo is plagued with the dilemma of Thursday night illnesses. Doctors rarely have clinic hours on...
Strike of doctors of Al-Zawia al-Hamra hospital, Cairo, 2 October 2012. Doctors went on a partial strike in 540 public hospitals to call for higher salaries, securing hospitals, and increase of health budget. 
At Imbaba clinic, kindness holds underfunded health system together
Sophie Anmuth 13 Nov 2012
The doctors are on strike, but the patients haven’t noticed.   In Tanash primary care unit, in Warraq, north...
Strike of doctors of Al-Zawia al-Hamra hospital, Cairo, 2 October 2012. Doctors went on a partial strike in 540 public hospitals to call for higher salaries, securing hospitals, and increase of health budget. 
Doctors resume strike after Eid holiday
Al-Masry Al-Youm 31 Oct 2012
Doctors resumed their nationwide strike Wednesday to demand better financial conditions and security of hospitals after...
Turkish soldiers in a military vehicle patrol near the Akcakale border gate, on the Turkish-Syrian border, southern Sanliurfa province
Egyptian medical team sets up field hospital on Syria-Turkey border
Egypt Independent 07 Oct 2012
An Egyptian medical team of 20 doctors and nurses went to the Syrian-Turkish border on Sunday to establish a field...
Doctors protesting within their nationwide part-time strike, calling for better working and financial conditions as well as sacking health minister Amr Helmy, Health Department, Alexandria, 25 September, 2011. 
Doctors strike nationwide, but not without resistance from fellow physicians
Mohamad Adam 02 Oct 2012
On the first day of the doctors’ strike, which had been called for by the general assembly of the Doctors’...
Paving the way for advanced intensive care units in Egypt
Heba Helmy 11 Sep 2012
A group of prestigious critical care professors and specialized consultants were brought together at a conference last...
Qasr al-Aini Hospital closed after gunmen attack doctors
Egypt Independent 31 Jul 2012
Qasr al-Aini Hospital’s reception was closed after gunmen broke in, attacking doctors and firing shots, after a...
A file photo of electricity pylons.
Health Ministry warns of 'disaster' in hospitals due to power outages
Al-Masry Al-Youm 29 Jul 2012
The Health Ministry has warned of a “disaster” in hospitals due to the recent rolling blackouts. “We...