And the Egyptian Ministry of Health and Population announced that 1,715 violating medical facilities were closed in 25 governorates, during the period from 1 to 16 November, as part of the intensive periodic campaigns launched by the Central Administration for Free Treatment and Licensing in the Ministry..
The official spokesman for the ministry, Hossam Abdel Ghaffar, confirmed that more than 5,000 different medical facilities were visited, ranging between hospitals, clinics and medical centers, to ensure that the medical facilities met the necessary health requirements..
He continued, in his speech to “Sky News Arabia”: “These campaigns are the natural product of our daily role in the Ministry of Health in controlling violators, and we will continue to detect any violation and transfer it to the authorities responsible for taking deterrent punishment.”
He also stressed “the ministry’s keenness to tighten control over private medical facilities, to ensure that the facility and its employees obtain the necessary licenses, implement infection control protocols, and review the validity of medicines.”
He pointed out that all legal measures have been taken towards violations that are monitored during traffic.
And he added, “No violating facility will be reactivated until it reconciles its conditions and resets all the violations that were monitored, in accordance with the rules and laws regulating the medical process.”
Oversight campaigns are carried out by the Ministry of Health, through a specialized team from the Central Administration for Free Treatment and Licensing, the Urgent and Critical Care Department and the Emergency Department of the Ministry, in cooperation with the Ambulance Authority..
‘Patients are safe’
At the same time, the head of the Central Administration for Free Treatment and Licensing, Hisham Zaki, confirmed that 105 “minutes” were issued regarding the violations that were monitored during traffic.
He explained that it varied between “non-application of infection control policies, management of facilities without licenses, and the presence of unqualified and unlicensed laborers to practice the profession, in addition to finding fraudulent and expired medicines.”.
And he continued, in a statement published by the ministry’s official Facebook page, that the patients who were in the hospitals that were closed, were transferred to alternative hospitals affiliated with the Ministry of Health.
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