The hospital includes seven operating theatres, 17 outpatient clinics, and intensive care units with a combined capacity of 33 beds, according to university officials.
New Giza University President Ahmed Sameh Farid said the hospital was a core requirement of the institution’s licensing, noting that the university was established by presidential decree in 2010 in academic partnership with Johns Hopkins University. Negotiations for the partnership began in 2009 and required the creation of a university hospital before the admission of medical students, he said.
A cabinet statement said an updated feasibility study in 2013 recommended a 225-bed hospital model. Construction of the university began in 2014, while academic operations started in 2016.
Alongside the new hospital, the university has upgraded a 60-bed community hospital in Sayeda Zeinab that provides free healthcare services and serves as a clinical training site for students, Farid said.
Meanwhile, Madbouly said the hospital is considered a model of highly serious private-sector participation in the education and healthcare systems, through the addition of a major medical complex expected to deliver substantial services in both sectors.
Moreover, the premier said the question that may come to the mind of an Egyptian citizen is whether they can access services at such high-quality facilities, stressing that this is indeed possible.
The New Giza University Hospital is located within the New Giza Health Park along the Cairo–Alexandria Desert Road. The hospital occupies around 6.5 feddans of the site and includes parking for approximately 400 vehicles. Its built-up area spans about 22,230 square metres across five floors.
The lower ground floor houses dialysis units with eight chairs, lithotripsy and urodynamics services, and supporting facilities. The first floor includes 60 inpatient beds, maternity services, two caesarean operating rooms, and a neonatal intensive care unit with 10 incubators.
The second floor contains 35 inpatient beds, seven operating rooms, a cardiac catheterization unit, and several intensive and critical care units.
Higher Education Minister Mohamed Ayman Ashour said Egypt’s university hospitals provided healthcare services to nearly 32 million patients in 2025 and carried out around 658,000 surgeries, including 390,000 advanced procedures.
He said the inauguration brings the total number of university hospitals nationwide to 146, adding that these facilities deliver about
75 percent of Egypt’s tertiary healthcare services. The network includes around 38,000 beds, nearly 5,000 intensive care beds, and about 1,200 neonatal incubators, Ashour said.
More than 30,000 faculty members, alongside nursing, technical, and administrative staff, are involved in operating university hospitals across the country, according to the minister.
Ashour said university hospitals affiliated with private universities are expected to expand, with the total projected to reach 12 facilities by the end of 2026, offering a combined capacity of around 3,000 beds.
Egypt currently has 59 medical schools, including 24 public, 12 private, 20 national non-profit, and two foreign-affiliated institutions, he added.
On research output, Ashour said medical sciences account for 23 percent of Egypt’s total scientific production. At New Giza University, medical sciences represented 40.6 percent of the institution’s research output over the past three years, with pharmaceutical sciences accounting for 20 percent, according to Elsevier’s Scival database.
The opening ceremony was attended by former prime ministers Ibrahim Mahlab and Ahmed Nazif, Arab League Secretary-General Ahmed Aboul Gheit, Deputy Prime Minister for Human Development and Minister of Health and Population Khaled Abdel Ghaffar, Giza Governor Adel El-Naggar, and senior university and health officials.
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