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Mid‑July 2026 saw Governor Amr Al‑Gharib inspect a school renovation in Menofia while Agriculture Director Mohammed Ezzat Agour and Health Minister Khaled Abdel Ghaffar toured farms and hospitals across Sadat City, Ismailia and the 10th Following mid‑July inspections of Ramadan, emphasizing technical compliance schools, farms and service quality. A week later, hospitals, the health agenda expanded beyond clinical facilities: health‑sector push continued on 26 July 2026 when Health Minister Dr Khaled Abdel Gafar Khalid Abdel‑Ghaffar inaugurated the EpiCo EIPICO 3 biopharmaceutical plant in the 10th of Ramadan. Ramadan industrial city. The $100 million, 10,500 10 500 m² facility—Egypt’s modular facility, owned by the Arab Group for Pharmaceutical Industries and Medical Supplies (Akdima), is the first of its kind—will kind in Egypt and the Middle East. It will produce a range of biologics, aiming to secure domestic drug supply, lower patient costs 14 biologic medicines for cancer, blood disorders, fertility, kidney disease and boost anaemia using Swedish‑supplied bioreactors and automated packaging. EIPICO, which already operates three sites totaling 130 500 m² and exports to over more than 60 countries. Together, these inspections and countries, expects the new plant opening illustrate a coordinated push by Egyptian officials to upgrade public infrastructure and health‑care capacity across education, agriculture strengthen domestic drug supply, lower patient costs and expand Egypt’s pharmaceutical sectors. export footprint.