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The two facilities—which together have 340 beds—have provided more than 900,000 medical and therapeutic services since joining the EHA network, making them among the governorate’s key integrated hospitals, the authority said on Sunday.
The surgeries were carried out on two patients with severe degeneration of the femoral head that had progressed to advanced osteoarthritis.
Both underwent total hip replacement using modern surgical techniques. The EHA said the procedures mark a step forward in its plan to broaden subspecialty services across Upper Egypt.
Across all EHA hospitals in Aswan, nearly two million medical, diagnostic, and therapeutic services have been delivered since integration into the system.
EHA chair Ahmed El-Sobky said the introduction of joint-replacement surgeries represents a significant shift in Aswan’s healthcare capacity and aligns with the authority’s wider strategy to localise specialised services across governorates.
The expansion comes as Egypt prepares for the second phase of its Universal Health Insurance System (UHIS), which aims to provide comprehensive coverage for all citizens by 2030.
The first phase—rolled out in Port Said, Ismailia, Luxor, South Sinai, Suez, and Aswan—required more than EGP 51 billion in investments to upgrade infrastructure, equipment, and digital systems.
The next phase will extend UHIS to Matrouh, North Sinai, Damietta, Kafr El-Sheikh, and Minya, covering more than 12 million people.
El-Sobky has said the phase will begin in September 2025 in Matrouh, followed by North Sinai in December 2025.
Two more governorates will join in early 2026, with the fifth added later.
Estimated investment for the phase is EGP 115 billion, including the high-population governorates of Kafr El-Sheikh and Minya.
Alexandria—Egypt’s second-largest city and one of its busiest medical centres—is also undergoing a major modernization programme ahead of its inclusion in UHIS.
Several hospitals, including Alexandria Fever Hospital and Gamal Abdel Nasser Hospital, as well as complexes in Smouha, Amreya, and Borg Al-Arab, are being refurbished or expanded to meet requirements for emergency care, intensive care, diagnostics, and specialized surgery, amid rising demand in the coastal city.
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