Egypt's Health Minister Khaled Abdel Ghaffar inaugurated upgraded emergency, outpatient, and reception units at Matariya Teaching Hospital and the National Institute of Urology and Nephrology on Saturday. This forms part of ongoing efforts to modernize health infrastructure and enhance medical services. He also inspected several other health projects.
The minister started his tour at the National Institute of Urology and Nephrology, which has 106 beds, where he opened a newly expanded emergency department that increased bed capacity from three to 13. The institute handled 26,921 emergency cases, 42,181 outpatient visits, 39,686 dialysis sessions, 1,353 catheterizations, and 2,221 surgeries in 2025, alongside performing its first two simultaneous kidney transplants within its units. He inspected the observation, radiology, resuscitation, and dialysis sections, directing the swift activation of the peritoneal dialysis (CAPD) program for patients with vascular complications, and followed up on establishing four new administrative rooms.
He then inaugurated the upgraded emergency department at Matariya Teaching Hospital, boosting its capacity from 29 to 37 beds and expanding the critical care section from four to eight beds. Abdel Ghaffar reviewed enhancements to staff accommodations, internal departments, and the new radiotherapy center, while inspecting the stroke unit that treats 20 to 25 cases monthly. He commended the quality of development works at both facilities, emphasizing the need for ongoing improvements in service quality and patient care.
In a separate inspection, the minister visited the National Institute of Neuromuscular and Sports Medicine, conversing with patients and ordering immediate treatments, including referring a woman for hearing aids. He examined the under-construction seven-storey sports medicine building spanning 30,000 square meters, which will feature 46 outpatient clinics, four physiotherapy halls, rehabilitation pools, 148 inpatient beds, six laboratories, a full radiology unit, and eight operating rooms. Abdel Ghaffar instructed teams to accelerate progress and forge twinning agreements with leading international rehabilitation centers.
Finally, at Imbaba Fever Hospital, he inspected the medical education complex and a medical storage building, voicing dissatisfaction with construction delays and ordering a contract review along with legal action against those responsible.