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How Shamseya is spearheading digital health in Egypt
It was only recently that health tech startups began emerging in the Egyptian medical market. For Ayman Sabae, then a third-year medical student in Cairo, advancing medical services in the country was a dream.
CAIRO | May Rostom
It all started in 2008, when Ayman Sabae pursued a masterâs degree in health systems management and developed a thesis around healthcare systems in Egypt. After a year of training and rotation in Cairoâs most famous public hospitals, he was determined to turn his thesis into reality.
âClinical rotations in my final year as a med student gave me insights on system defects in Egyptâs public hospitals. I was able to pinpoint what we lacked and what we needed to improve to put our patients at the centre of every solution or treatment we offer,â Sabae says.
Egypt Denied an Oxygen Failure Killed Covid Patients. We Found That It Did.
For many Egyptians, a video offered a rare and uncensored view of the coronavirus’s real toll at the peak of Egypt’s second wave of the pandemic.
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EL HUSSEINEYA, Egypt A cry pierced the night from the balcony of an Egyptian hospital. A nurse was screaming that the patients in the Covid intensive care unit were gasping for air.
Ahmed Nafei, who was standing outside, brushed past a security guard, dashed in and saw that his 62-year-old aunt was dead.
Furious, he whipped out his phone and began filming. It appeared that the hospital had run out of oxygen. Monitors were beeping. A nurse was visibly distressed and cowering in a corner as her colleagues tried to resuscitate a man using a manual ventilator.