The ministry said the administrative closure order was issued on 10 March for a clinic owned by physician Diaa El-Din Shalabi Mohamed El-Awady on El-Nozha Street in East Nasr City.
According to the ministry, the decision followed a ruling by the disciplinary board of the Egyptian Doctors Syndicate in February to revoke the doctor’s membership, which automatically cancels his license to practice medicine under the country’s medical practice law.
The syndicate said its investigations found that the physician had published and promoted medical opinions and treatment advice not supported by scientific evidence on social media platforms, including claims related to diseases such as diabetes, kidney and heart conditions, cancer, and hormonal disorders.
Authorities said the content included unapproved treatment methods and could mislead patients, posing a potential risk to public health.
The Doctors Syndicate confirmed that it had also filed a complaint with the public prosecutor and contacted relevant regulatory bodies to take legal action over the spread of misleading medical information online.
Al-Awady, who has a combined following of more than one million across major social media platforms such as Facebook and YouTube, went viral for short video clips in which he claimed that smoking was not harmful and that sugar was not particularly dangerous. In the same videos, he rejected healthy diets and claimed that insulin was a “fraud.”
According to media reports, while the Doctors Syndicate was investigating him, a physician in Dakahlia posted on Facebook that a seven-year-old diabetic patient had fallen into a coma after his family stopped administering insulin, reportedly influenced by Al-Awady’s claim in a video that insulin was a “fraud.”
Following the incident, several Egyptian doctors took to social media to strongly criticize him.
The Ministry of Health also launched an online awareness campaign highlighting the importance of insulin, particularly for children with diabetes.
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