In a wave of legal inspections, 12 private drug rehabilitation centers in Cairo and Giza have been closed down by Health Minister Adel Adawy after they were discovered to have been operating without a license. The ministry’s initiative to shut down illegal medical and rehabilitation centers began two months ago and is on-going, according to Health Ministry spokesman Hossam Abdel-Ghaffar. In the Ministry’s official statement, Abdel-Ghaffar noted that there are 36 certified rehabilitation centers in Cairo and Giza, besides the 12 unlicensed ones that were closed. In addition to shutting down the rehabilitation centers, Health Minister Adawy stated that a police report will be filed against the closed down medical facilities’ managers. The additional measure comes as an attempt to hold the managers accountable seeing as they operated in non-conforming conditions, the state-owned al-Ahram reported. Adawy also urged the doctors working in psychiatric hospitals to avoid jobs in unlicensed centers and encouraged them to maintain their ethical standards. In a 2013 report by Egypt’s National Council for Battling Addiction, the percentage of drug users over the age of 15 had risen from 6.4 to 30 percent since 2011, with many…
Ministry Of Health Cracks Down On Unlicensed Rehabiliation Centres
June 25, 2015
