08 April 2023
President of the Egypt Healthcare Authority" and Swedish Ambassador testify to the signing of a memorandum of understanding for the establishment of the EHA GETINGE ACADEMY Technical Training Academy

"President of the Egypt Healthcare Authority" and "Swedish Ambassador" testify to the signing of a memorandum of understanding for the establishment of the EHA GETINGE ACADEMY Technical Training Academy for the Medical Corps of the Egypt Healthcare Authority.

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Chairman of the Egypt Healthcare Authority: We are keen to introduce advanced health-care technology and techniques globally at its hospitals to ensure the best service and health care for patients and to strengthen the State efforts in sustainable health development in line with Egypt Vision 2030.

The President of the Egypt Healthcare Authority values the continued and fruitful cooperation of the Swedish Ambassador to promote cooperation in health care between Egypt and Sweden. It stresses the importance of transferring the experiences of the Swedish health-care system at its advanced global level to Egypt. 

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Dr. Ahmed El-Sobky, President of Egypt Healthcare Authority, Assistant Minister of Health and Population, General Supervisor of the Comprehensive Health Insurance Project, and Ambassador Houkan Emsigord of the Kingdom of Sweden to Egypt, witnessed the signing of a memorandum of understanding between the Egypt Healthcare Authority and GETINGE Group Middle East GETINGE, with a view to strengthening cooperation in the areas of health care, at the Swedish Embassy in Cairo.

The memorandum of understanding was signed by Dr. Amir El-Telwany, Executive Director of Egypt Healthcare Authority, representing the Authority, and Mr. Georges Salah Malik, Director-General of GETINGE Group Middle East, representing GETINGE, with a number of leaders and officials from both sides.

Under the memorandum of understanding, the parties agreed on cooperation and partnership in the areas of hospital transition, digital solutions and training development, through the establishment of the EHA GETINGE ACADEMY technical training academy for the medical staff of the Egypt Healthcare Authority, as well as cooperation in the transfer of the GETINGE expertise in the full mechanization of the operations sections, beginning with the Authority Ismailia medical complex, as well as the mechanization of the patient course within those departments, as well as cooperation in the sustainable green operation of the Central Sterilization Sections of the Authority hospitals.

Dr. Ahmed El-Sobky stressed that the signing of the memorandum of understanding with GETINGE  was a new starting point for technical and technical support and digital transformation of the management of the operations sections of the health-care authority in a fully mechanized way, as well as for the management of the patient's cycle within those departments in a safe and fully mechanized manner, in order to achieve the highest rates of safety and safety of patients and of the users of the comprehensive health insurance, noting that the agreement was a fundamental step towards achieving the organization's strategy towards cyber inclusion and the digital transformation of all its therapeutic and administrative services.

Dr. Ahmed El-Sobky emphasized the concern of the Egypt Healthcare Authority to transfer successful international expertise and experience in various areas of health care and to introduce advanced health-care technology and techniques globally to its hospitals to ensure the best health service and care for patients and to become the Egyptian State instrument for providing an advanced model of health care with global quality, thereby contributing to the promotion of the achievement of the goals of sustainable health development in accordance with Egypt Vision 2030.

Dr. Ahmed El-Sobky commended the Swedish Ambassador efforts in Cairo to cooperate continuously and fruitfully with the Egypt Healthcare Authority. He welcomed the continued strengthening of cooperation between Egypt and Sweden in various areas, the most important of which was the area of health care for the transfer of the Swedish health-care system at its advanced global level to Egypt and African States.

For his part, Ambassador Houkan Emsigord of Sweden, in Cairo, commended the efforts of the Chairman of the Egypt Healthcare Authority to strengthen cooperation in the field of health care between Egypt and Sweden, commending his efforts to continue to improve the health-care system in Egypt and to bring it to a global stage, and affirming that further cooperation between the two countries would continue in the coming period, thus contributing to the strengthening of health investments by the leading Swedish companies in the medical sector in Egypt.

Dr. Amir El-Telwany, Executive Director of the Egypt Healthcare Authority, was pleased to sign the memorandum of understanding with GETINGE , noting that it promoted the completion of the Authority digital transition of services, which began with the electronic medical records of patients, the mechanization of the hospital entry, exit and emergency sections, the operationalization of the LIS standardized electronic laboratory systems, the electronic PACS archive, electronic pharmacies and prescriptions, etc., reflecting on the development of the delivery of the health-care services provided, and the improvement of their quality and output.

For his part, Mr. Georges Salah Malik, Director-General of GETINGE Group Middle East, was pleased to sign the memorandum of understanding with the health-care authority, to cooperate in developing and improving the efficiency of health-care output, to transfer outstanding expertise in the advanced Swedish health-care system to Egypt and its positive implications for the development of health care on the African continent. He continued: They were proud to cooperate with the welfare authority to achieve better outcomes in the management of health care and the safety and safety of patients.

The protocol was signed by Dr. Magdy Bakr, Adviser to the Chairman of the Authority for Technical Affairs, Dr. Sharif Kamal, Adviser to the Chairman of the Authority for Pharmaceutical Affairs and Drug Management, Dr. Gamal Ratba, Adviser to the Chairman of the Authority for Financial Affairs and Head of the Central Department for Institutional Support Services, Dr. Wael Omran, Assistant Executive Director for Employment, Director-General of the General Department for Administrative Affairs and General Supervisor of Supply Affairs, Dr. Ahmed Hamad, Director-General of the Technical Office of the Chairman of the Authority, Dr. Ahmed Atef, Director-General of the General Department for International Cooperation and External Relations, and Dr. Mazen Aladdin, Member of the General Department for International Cooperation and External Relations.