CAIRO, July 25 , 2018 (MENA) - Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research Khaled Abdel Ghafar said the coordination meetings he has held with Minister of Health Hala Zayed resulted in signing a cooperation agreement between the universities' teaching hospitals and Ministry of Health to end the woes of patients needing urgent surgical intervention. The list of patients includes those suffering from heart, kidney, eye brain or neurological problems and those who require organ transplants or cancer surgeries. In a statement released Wednesday by the Higher Education and Scientific Research Ministry, Abdel Ghafar said the agreement comes as part of the directives of President Abel Fattah El Sisi on the need for alleviating the burdens of patients and ending the problem of patient waiting lists at the Health Ministry hospitals. He made it clear that the agreement allows all patients to benefit from various health services available at the Egyptian universities' hospital. He noted that the teaching hospitals will be committed to setting up special offices to follow up patients' cases, their medical history along with giving them the necessary medication. Secretary General of the Higher Council of University Hospitals Hossam Abdel Ghafar and Assistant Health Minister for Therapeutic Medicine Ahmed Mohie el Qased signed the agreement.
