The Minister of Health: Egypt reserved a preview of the drug “Remisdvir” (details)

Dr. Hala Zayed, Minister of Health, said updated treatment protocols are continuously followed by the World Health Organization, explaining that Egypt had reserved a first batch of “Remisdivir”, which was approved by the American Administration of Food and Drug Administration (FDA) as part of new treatment protocols for the emerging corona virus.

And “Zayed” added during his visit to the chest and fever hospitals in Alexandria, that the plasma from the recovered people is being used to treat people with the emerging coronavirus, and the results will be announced first.

The Minister of Health inspects the Alexandria Fever Hospital

Today, Saturday and Saturday, Dr. Hala Zayed, Minister of Health and Population, inspected work progress and development work at Alexandria Fever Hospital, as part of the ministry’s plan to equip and rehabilitate fever hospitals and chests in across the country to gradually become isolation hospitals for people with coronavirus infection, to provide all medical services from the completion of the necessary controls. Diagnose the condition and even isolation, provide treatment, and monitor cases after recovery. and discharge, in addition to providing scientific research services.

The Minister of Health inspects the Alexandria Fever Hospital

Dr. Khaled Mujahid, Advisor to the Minister of Health and Population for Media Affairs and the official spokesman for the ministry, said that the minister inspected the various departments of the hospital, with a clinical capacity of 243, in addition to 23 intensive care beds, and noted that the minister visited two buildings that are being developed, one with a capacity for 120 beds and the other with a capacity for 50 beds, quickly directed to finish all the works and furniture.

The Minister of Health inspects the Alexandria Fever Hospital

He added that the Minister was interested in reviewing the path of patients from admission to hospital and the procedures followed for both the wounded and those suspected of injury, and ensured the availability of labor and medical and preventive supplies. , aimed at increasing the number of intensive care beds, providing computed tomography and providing laboratories with the necessary equipment to provide the best medical service for patients. .

The Minister emphasized the preservation of the ancient heritage of the hospital, which has an area of ​​25 acres, which was founded more than 100 years ago on English heritage, which is the nature on which most fever hospitals were founded and chests in Egypt, and emphasized that these hospitals are the foundation of the health system for treating infectious diseases and will be used to Live with the coronavirus until treatment or vaccine appears.

The Minister of Health inspects the Alexandria Fever Hospital

The Minister also noted that updated treatment protocols are being continuously followed up with the World Health Organization, noting that Egypt has reserved a first batch of “Remisevir”, which was approved by the American Food and Drug Administration within the new treatment protocols for emerging coronavirus, indicating that plasma is being used. Those recovering to treat newly infected Coronaviruses, and the results will be announced soon.

Mujahid noted that each of the Sadr Al Maamoura and Kom Al Shoqafa hospitals in the Alexandria Governorate is being developed and equipped to provide a comprehensive medical service for patients with the Corona virus, as the basis of the health system to treat infectious diseases Explaining that the clinical capacity of Sadr Al Mamoura Hospital is 297 beds and 17 intensive care beds, and directed the Minister using 86 beds in hospital beds for isolation. I also ordered 80 beds to be used inside Kom El Shoqafa Hospital for isolation.

During her inspection tour today, the minister highlighted the commitment to preventive and preventive measures and social separation measures, highlighting that citizen awareness is a key factor in protecting him and his family.

Assign a future building in Alexandria fevers to convert it into a quarantine hospital to receive people infected with the Coronavirus.

The Minister also thanked the medical staff for the high efficiency and sincerity that I felt at work, saying: “They are a pride for us and for the Egyptian state, and they are showing day after day that they are up to the responsibility.”

Mujahid continued that the work of developing and raising the efficiency of fever and chest hospitals, which have been increased to 35 hospitals in the different provinces of the Republic, will be carried out in 3 stages, respectively, through which the efficiency of the gas, plumbing, electricity, sanitation and paint network in each hospital will be raised and supplied with respirators, pointing to the adoption of an afforestation initiative. And green spaces in those hospitals, adding that this is done in parallel with maintaining the provision of medical services until the completion of development work and increasing efficiency as soon as possible and delivering them, and also emphasized that training and efficiency of the workforce of medical personnel in Air infection control and treatment protocols, in addition to supporting laboratories with the necessary supplies and equipment and providing tablet devices in each hospital to electronically record the files of the wounded.