A committee tasked with appraising and freezing the funds of members of the Muslim Brotherhood has decided to take over the assets of 16 hospitals around the country which are under the management of the group.

Committee secretary Yasser Abu El-Fotouh said that among the hospitals are El-Safwa hospital in Cairo and the Abdel-Fattah Shahin medical centre in Giza.

The hospitals, which are spread over five different governorates, will be put under the supervision of the Egyptian health ministry, and will continue operating normally, Abu El-Fotouh's statement reads.   

In December 2013, Egypt's interim authorities designated the Brotherhood a terrorist organisation and froze the assets of many of its members and all affiliated NGOs.

In 2014 a court ruling banned all activities of the Brotherhood, from which ousted Islamist president Mohamed Morsi hails, and ordered the confiscation of the group's assets via a state committee.

The government has seized the assets of hundreds of Brotherhood members, including cars and agricultural land, as well as privately owned shares in listed companies.

Dozens of schools and NGOs with links to Morsi's group were also confiscated.

Hundreds of Brotherhood members and the group's top leadership have been arrested by authorities since Morsi's ouster in 2013 and placed on trial on a variety of charges.