Minister of Health and Population Hala Zayed announced the ministry’s plan to ensure medical services during the Eid al-Adha holiday. Accoutring to Zayed, the first level is to raise the degree of readiness to maximum in the ambulance authority. In addition to ten ambulance boats for emergency services in the River Nile, two air ambulances will fly over highways and major traffic hubs. The citizen has the right to enjoy good health services during Eid al-Adha, he added. Ghaffar said that a joint operation room was set up with the Ministry of Health to follow up the implementation of the Eid al-Adha plan and raise the degree of high readiness in all university hospitals.

Source: Egypt Independent August 18, 2018 12:45 UTC