A tourist couple looks at a map of Egypt at the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh, which hosted the Arab Summit, in the South Sinai governorate, south of Cairo, March 27, 2015. The newspaper is also required to suspend publishing Newton’s opinion pieces for one month. The projects also include seawater desalination plants and renewable energy plants. Also, many schools and hospitals were built.Concerning education in Sinai, the number of classes in the pre-university levels increased from 4,793 in 2016 to 5,021 in 2019, making a higher increase rate compared with the capital Cairo.In health, a number of large hospitals have been established by the Armed Forces in Arish, North Sinai’s largest city and the Red Sea resort city of Sharm El-Sheikh in South Sinai. A national project to develop Sinai aims to increase the number of beds inside hospitals to 6,000 by establishing 55 public hospitals and 23 private ones, to cope with the expected increase in the number of residents.

Source: Egypt Today April 27, 2020 11:03 UTC