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WHO Egypt and Ministry of Health and Population celebrate physicians on Family Doctor Day
25 May 2022 – With the support of USAID, the WHO country office in Egypt and the Primary Healthcare and Nursing sector at Egypt’s Ministry of Health and Population held a conference on 19 May to acknowledge and honour family physicians in celebration of World Family Doctor Day. Two hundred (200) primary health care workers from different...
Egypt launches mental health platform
18 May 2022 – Egypt officially launched a freely accessible mental health and addiction treatment electronic platform on 16 March 2022. Development of the platform was the result of collaboration between the Egyptian Ministry of Health and Population, the General Secretariat of Mental Health and Addiction Treatment, the WHO country office in...
Nationwide novel polio vaccine rolled out in Egypt, in Region first
22 December 2021 - A nationwide campaign to vaccinate 16.5 million children under age five with novel oral polio vaccine type 2 (nOPV2) began this week in Egypt. Egypt is the first country in the Eastern Mediterranean Region to use nOPV2, a next-generation version of the existing type 2 monovalent OPV (mOPV2) that offers the same protection against...
Germany donates 7 million masks to WHO to help protect Egyptian health care professionals
Cairo, Egypt, 28 September 2021 – The German Ambassador Frank Hartmann handed over a donation of 7 million masks to WHO, which were received by the WHO Representative to Egypt Dr Naeema Al Gasseer at the premises of the German Embassy in Egypt. The masks were donated by the German Federal Ministry of Health from its own stocks and will be...
Statement by the World Health Organization Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean
In light of recent comments on social media, the World Health Organization (WHO) clarifies that it does not engage with tobacco companies and does not support visits to tobacco company facilities in any way. WHO’s Constitution, rules, and regulations, including its Framework of engagement with non-State actors, prohibit engagement in activities...
WHO welcomes support from Japan to protect the health of people in Egypt
Dr Jean Jabbour, WHO Representative in Egypt, and Mr Masaki Noke, Ambassador of Japan to EgyptThe World Heath Organization welcomes a new contribution from the Government of Japanto support the scaling up of Egypt’s disease surveillance system, ensuring an effective and rapid response to epidemic-prone diseases across the country. Within Egypt’s...
