Health Ministry to work with private sector to set up ten hospitals over two years: The Health Ministry is in talks with local and foreign private players to to build ten hospitals across ten of the country’s governorates within the next 24 months, the ministry’s spokesman Hossam Abdel Ghaffar told Al Arabiya. The ten hospitals will add 3k beds to the country’s capacity, with 200-300 beds in each hospital.

Hot on the heels of an approved hospital privatization bill: The move comes following the approval from the House earlier this week to a bill allowing the private sector to manage and operate public hospitals and healthcare facilities in Egypt.

It’s not just public hospitals that are on track for more private sector involvement: The government is aiming to up the private sector’s role in the universal health ins. system to 50%, up from 30%, according to a Finance Ministry statement.

This mirrors its private sector targets for the sector as a whole: The Madbouly government is also looking to increase the private sector’s share in healthcare to 50% by 2027 — up from a current 30%.

AL MOUNEER TO POWER EYE CARE AT CAIRO’S INT’L MEDICAL CENTER

More advanced ophthalmic care at the International Medical Center: Local healthtech startup Almouneer has partnered with Cairo’s International Medical Center to provide tech for ophthalmology and eye surgeries, according to a statement (pdf). It will also set up a specialized center for eye care.

Almouneer? The women-owned startup supports sufferers of chronic diseases such as diabetes via its digital platform DRU. Almouneer currently maintains a customer base of over 120k users. Almouneer raised USD 3.6 mn from investors in a seed round in November.

Tags: