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All Children Battling Cancer in Africa’s Nile Basin ‘Welcome to Receive Free Treatment’ in Egypt

August 13, 2015
Abdel Fatah Al-Sisi During His Meeting With Editors-In-Chief Of Various African Newspapers. Source: Presidential Office

In extended efforts to weave unity and peace across the Nile Basin countries through mutual benefits and shared knowledge, 600 African physicians have been promised to receive medical training at the Egyptian Children’s Cancer Hospital (CCHE)57357 throughout the upcoming three years. The news was announced by President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi on Monday in a meeting with the chief editors of several African newspapers, reported the Cairo Post. In his statement, President Sisi added that children battling with cancer from across the 10 Nile Basin countries will be welcomed to receive free treatment at CCHE. Since its establishment in 2009, the CCHE 57357 Research Department has been a leading force of medical research in Egypt, with a focus on pediatric care, epidemiology, molecular biology, pathology and pharmaco-kinetics. In light of the frightening outbreak of Ebola which has taken more than 11,000 lives since 2014, according to the World Health Organization, Sisi added that Egypt will aid the African countries in their combat against Ebola by creating a database covering disease development and vaccines. The initiative can be considered an extension to Sisi’s previous achievements in restoring relief to the Nile Basin…


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