Prof. Madiha Khattab
Dean of Medicine, Cairo University
Biography:
Dr. Madiha Khattab
(Dean of Medicine, Cairo University)
Dr. Madiha Khattab doesn’t believe in mincing words when it comes to the state of the country’s public healthcare system.
“People are unhappy,” says the Dean of Cairo University’s Faculty of Medicine. “They’re complaining they’re not receiving satisfactory healthcare services, and I don’t blame them.”
For nearly three decades, Khattab has been a part of that system. Sadly, she has seen little improvement since her medical school days in the 1960s. Public hospitals remain under-funded and understaffed, pharmacies continue to be run more as grocery stores by uneducated attendants, and accountability for malpractice of any sort is nowhere to be found.
Today, Khattab also finds herself on the political scene as the head of the health committee at the governing National Democratic Party’s powerful Higher Council for Policies. In addition to helping fix the system so many had given up on, she has recently begun working with Council President Gamal Mubarak and Minister of Finance and Insurance Yousef Boutros-Ghali on implementing President Hosni Mubarak’s campaign promise to provide better healthcare coverage to all Egyptians.
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