President Abdel Fattah El Sisi directed the bodies concerned to work for transforming Nasser Institute into research hub and an integrated medical city.

During a meeting with Prime Minister Moustafa Madbouli and Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research Khaled Abdel Ghaffar on Monday, Sisi also called for increasing the facility’s bed capacity and improving its infrastructure, while ensuring a sustainable provision of medical services.

Sisi also instructed the bodies concerned to establish an Egyptian mathematics academy to embrace and support math geniuses, which will help in academically linking mathematical sciences with new technologies, and enhance local software and cybersecurity industries.

The meeting took up the implementation status of some major national projects in the healthcare, higher education, and scientific research sectors, according to Presidential Spokesman Bassam Radi.

Briefing the president on the institute’s development scheme, Abdel Ghaffar said that the facility will have new buildings for pediatrics and internal medicine, outpatient clinics, a research center for genetic diseases, in addition to an airfield for ambulance aircraft, and river ambulance unit.

Abdel Ghaffar also posted the president on the activities of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow in Egypt.

This year the college will start offering training opportunities and organizing fellowship exams in cooperation with the Research Institute of Ophthalmology and the Faculty of Dentistry at Ain Shams University, the minister said.

Sisi also instructed the bodies concerned to build permanent premises for the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow in the New Administrative Capital, the spokesman added.

Source: State Information Service Egypt