Egypt’s Minister of Health Hala Zayed discussed on Thursday ways to boost cooperation between the health sector and Siemens Healthineers with Siemens Healthineers Egypt Managing Director Michael Schmermer.

According to the Ministry of Health, the minister discussed with Schmermer ways of cooperation in transferring modern technology to support the Egyptian medical sector in the fields of education, training, project management and digital transformation.

Zayed spoke at the meetings about how to cooperate with the company in supplying the National Center for Infectious Diseases Surveillance and Control with the latest information systems as well as the centralised labs in the ministry, with the latest medical equipment.

They also discussed cooperation in the field of mobile smart clinics as well as upgrading the local medical units, centers and clinics at the villages chosen in the National Programme for the Development of Egyptian Villages in addition to the centralised hospitals in the governorates with the latest medical equipment.

From his side, Siemens Healthineers Egypt Managing Director Michael Schmermer asserted his company’s keenness in supporting the health sector in Egypt with the latest modern medical equipment.

He also welcomed the cooperation with the health ministry especially in terms of the presidential initiative and national projects that contribute in developing the health system in Egypt.