Presidential Spokesperson Bassam Rady stated on Wednesday that Egypt is preparing to launch the “largest medical campaign in the world” by October to detect and treat Hepatitis C for 42 to 50 million citizens, as reported by Al Watan. The national campaign is part of President Abdel Fattah Al Sisi’s initiative announced earlier in February to free the country from the disease by 2020. It will take place from October 2018 until April 2019 in all of Egypt’s governorates, targeting people between the ages of 19-59. The official spokesperson for the Ministry of Health Khaled Megahed stated that the campaign will target 17 governorates, including Cairo, Fayoum, Giza, Beni Suef, and Aswan, while the next stages will take place in the rest of Egypt. It will include health scans of members through PCR tests and those found to be positive will undergo further checks for hepatitis C and be given a cure the same day. Minister of Health and Population Hala Zayed also recently launched on Tuesday the first stage of training for the campaign and which will last for five days for 800 medical staff and 25 volunteers from universities….
Egypt to Detect and Treat 50 Million Citizens From Hepatitis C
September 13, 2018
