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Middle East health service expansions and inspections

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In early June, Jordan’s Ministry of Health added evening‑shift coverage at five Zarqa centres, cutting emergency‑room visits and freeing capacity for critical cases. Egypt’s health directorates began intensive field inspections, checking staffing, drug supplies and compliance, later sealing two unlicensed clinics after complaints. Yemen’s public‑health office swept private clinics in the Raddofan district, closing illegal facilities, seizing expired food and inspecting pharmacy drug quality. Egypt continued major hospital upgrades: Kasr Al‑Ainy received a children’s wing, an ICU with ECMO and expanded labs; Kafr Shiekh University readied a 690‑bed emergency and children’s hospital for the Delta. Qena University treated roughly 500,000 patients with 31,000 surgeries; Minia University delivered three million services, doubled capacity to nearly 2,000 beds and gained Vision 2030 accreditation for four hospitals. Suez Canal University hospitals reported over 1.45 million laboratory analyses and joined the comprehensive health‑insurance scheme. Beni Suef University hospitals logged over 1.37 million services, while Benha University Hospitals served approximately 1.63 million beneficiaries in the 2025/26 fiscal year. Regional inspections persisted into July 2026: Yemen’s Abyan governorate inspected water factories and labs, preparing legal action against violators; Egypt’s Ismailia Free Treatment Administration inspected 60 private facilities, closing seven and warning fifteen over licensing, infection‑control and hazardous‑waste issues. In July, Yemeni authorities opened free medical camps in Yafa and Ridah for low‑income surgery and chronic‑disease care. On 30 July 2026, Cairo Governor Ibrahim Saber inaugurated the second phase of a 1 billion EGP upgrade of Al‑Hussein University Hospital. The expansion added outpatient ~~clinics (36 → 74),~~ clinics, upgraded ~~orthopaedics, plastic surgery, burns, hepatology, gastroenterology, thoracic and vascular surgery,~~ various surgical specialties, installed an 8.8 MW power plant, ~~central camera system~~ and ~~air‑conditioning, a cardiac catheterisation unit and a linear accelerator for oncology, and~~ increased total beds to ~~1,047 with a larger collective‑care unit~~ 1,047. In August 2026, Egypt’s Ministry of Health and ~~a 68‑machine dialysis block.~~ Population reported that its national intensive care and incubator project managed over 200,000 cases in the first half of the year, comprising 168,566 intensive care and 38,245 incubator cases.

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