Interior Minister sent medical convoys to treat prisoners

Nourhan Elsebahy
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Minister of Interior Magdy Abdel Ghaffar (Photo from Ministry of Interior)

The medical services sector, in coordination with the prison services sector at the Ministry of Interior and a number of security directorates, sent medical convoys to public prisons and police stations to provide medical services to prisoners, local media reported.

A medical convoy was sent to Al-Marg prison, which included doctors from various medical specialties. It consists of 14 officer doctors and six nurses and worked cooperatively with prison doctors to sign medical examination to all prisoners and give a number of necessary medications to 205 prisoners.

A medical convoy was also sent to Assiut prison, including all medical specialties, for four days. Medical examinations were made on 958 prisoners there, while some cases were diagnosed and doctors prescribed the necessary treatment for them.

The Ministry of Interior is continuing its efforts to send such medical convoys to provide all means of health and medical care for prisoners and detainees to follow-up on their health.

Earlier last month, several medical convoys, including 63 officer doctors from various specialties and five nursing crews, were sent to conduct medical examinations for the prisoners of El-Nahda El-Marakazy, Tora, and Loyman prison to provide them with necessary medications.

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Nourhan El-Sebahy is a journalist at DNE’s politics section. Just before joining DNE’s staff, she was working as a journalist at El-Watan newspaper “an Egyptian daily independent newspaper”. She holds a Master’s Degree of Journalism and Mass Communication from the American University in Cairo (AUC). She was awarded by Certificate of honor on the Fourth Scientific Day Celebration in 2013 and Graduate Student’s honor at AUC in 2012.
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