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Zeinab el-Gundy – Ahram Online
Egypt’s Doctors Syndicate urged the government on Thursday, to extend the current curfew for another three weeks to curb the spread of COVID-19.
In an online press conference broadcast via the syndicate’s Facebook page, syndicate officials renewed their demand that the Health ministry expand its PCR testing and called to locally manufacture PCR kits. PCR testing kits needed to diagnose COVID-19 are imported from China or the UK.
The curfew will run from 5pm to 6am for a week starting from Sunday; the doctors are demanding the extension for another three further weeks after this.
The syndicate called the government to assign special isolation hospitals for medical professionals who contract the virus. This aims to reduce the spread of the disease among patients and society.
At a press conference, Dr. Ehab el-Taher, the Doctors Syndicate secretary-general, stated that “the health ministry’s recent plan to deal with the spread of the virus in the country unveiled on Wednesday was good, but it needed certain things to make it succeed”.
“The ministry said the 320 centralised and general hospitals nationwide will be used for coronavirus screening and testing. We need full medical and protective supplies for those hospitals to be ready for this”, el-Taher says.
“The counter-infection teams should be sent from the ministry to earmark each of those hospitals into green zones and red zones, to make sure that the coronavirus does not reach other sections in those hospitals”, he added.
