Subsidized infant milk will only be available in 1,005 outlets throughout the country, Egypt’s health minister said on Thursday after dozens protested the shortage outside Egyptian Pharmaceutical Trading Company in Cairo. The ministerial decision came to combat “leakages” of the supplies of subsidized infant milk, the minister, Ahmed Emad, said during a press conference at the Cabinet of Ministers on Thursday. He added that the state spends EGP 450 million annually to subsidize the milk. One of the protesters, who preferred not to be named for security reasons, said that he made the trip from Monufia, a governorate in the Nile Delta, to Cairo several times to buy the milk from the Company since it was unavailable in his own governorate. He added that the Company only offers three packs for each child. The protesters gathered earlier Thursday morning and are reported to have blocked the road in front of the company until an Interior Ministry official came to negotiate with them. According to the protester, the official told them of three outlets where they can buy the milk and requested that they inform him if they do not find it….
‘New System’ of Infant Formula Sales Introduced in Egypt Amid Protests Over Shortages
September 2, 2016
