CAIRO — As the pandemic swept up the Nile this spring, one idealistic young doctor at a bustling Cairo public hospital at first grew anxious. Patients were flooding through the hospital doors but resources were alarmingly scarce. Doctors lacked protective equipment, often making do with a single mask for a 24-hour shift. Six years earlier, President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi of Egypt had vowed to put health care reform “at the heart” of his agenda. Egypt’s public health system was straining badly, the doctor, Ibrahim Bediwy, 27, warned in a message posted online in May.

Source: International New York Times November 11, 2020 09:56 UTC