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Health Minister: 8% of cases are in intensive care and 4% are respiratory devices

Dr. Hala Zayed revealed the details of the meeting held by President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi today, during which he approved the increase of doctors ’allowances by 75% and the payment of exceptional rewards to doctors of quarantine and chest hospitals, saying,“ President Sisi informed us during the meeting held today on the latest developments in the Corona virus, infection rates, prevalence and procedures The firmness that we are still taking.

She said in a telephone interview with the “Cairo Now” program, which presented the media to Mays Al-Hadidi that the president highly praised the effort of the medical sector in light of the Corona crisis and directed an increase in the allowances of medical professions by 75%, which is a very good number at the present time in addition to his directives to the Viva Egypt Fund to spend exceptional rewards For workers in hospitals, isolation, quarantine, fevers, and those who work directly, indicating that these allowances according to the law range from 400 to 700 pounds, and then the increase by 75% will be as a percentage of these numbers shown in the correct law according to the degree .

The Minister of Health added, “All medical workers feel that they are serving their country soldiers and doing their work with sincerity, because they are in the current crisis not less than the soldiers and martyrs on the front.” Corona at the world level and then the interest of the President at that time is greatly appreciated, especially that the requirement to increase allowances was years .

On the developments of the new Corona virus and the date for crossing the danger stage, the Minister said, “Theoretically, according to the World Health Organization and the experiences of the countries that preceded us in receiving the virus indicate that the peak weeks are the sixth, seventh and eighth, and Egypt is now in the seventh week, and we make all possible efforts to do an inventory, investigation and isolation to ensure that there is no spread The virus is social, and therefore all cases are from contacts. This is good “.

On the high death rates in recent weeks, she said, “The arrival of cases is late and the death rate has been raised, and she confirmed that the cases of the day also came late and one of the women who died today showed the results of her analysis and we tried to contact her but she did not answer so we sent the security to her. She had died by calling on the masses not to delay reporting immediately.” The emergence of any symptoms, especially the elderly and pregnant women, when you feel a high temperature accompanied by respiratory symptoms, go to the nearest hospital diets and do not be late. “.

The Minister of Health expected high recovery rates during the coming period, in light of the presence of 88% of the affected cases now suffering from simple or moderate symptoms and therefore curable, and also 8% of the cases in intensive care and 4% on ventilator“.

On the availability and extent of readiness of the medical sector with ventilator equipment, she said, we reviewed with the President today all developments and preparations through the hospitals of the university sector, the ministry and civil society, with equipment and equipment even in pandemic scenarios, and we have readiness for any scenario, noting that Egypt did not record cases of bounce, as happened in China. Until any case is studied extensively.

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