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Dina Mansour
Health & Society Reporter
Writes about health and society — hospitals and public health, the cost of care, education, and the everyday questions readers put to a newsroom about services they depend on. The beat is anchored in what a policy means for a family: waiting times, fees, what is covered and what is not. Health claims are sourced to a medical authority or a published study, never to a press release, and the story says plainly when the evidence is thin.
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Latest stories by Dina Mansour
What Global Handwashing Day's evidence says about Egypt's children
On Global Handwashing Day, Egypt-specific research and UNICEF data show how much a simple soap-and-water habit can cut child illness and absenteeism.
15 Oct 2026
Egypt signs Africa-wide drug production pact and health deals at Berlin summit
Egypt's health minister struck a framework on local medicine and vaccine manufacturing with AUDA-NEPAD and discussed disease surveillance and health-economics research in Berlin.
12 Oct 2026
700,000 calls, 15 reviewers a day: xAIa's case for ComplAI
One xAIa client generated 700,000 recorded calls in a month while its compliance team could clear 15 to 20 a day. The Dubai company built ComplAI, which it says reviews every conversation and cuts manual review effort by more than 80%.
2 Sept 2026
Egypt and Cisco sign two AI agreements. The only hard number in them is 3,000 trainers
Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly witnessed the signing of two memoranda with Cisco on 1 September — one to expand AI across government, the other to certify 3,000 trainers. Neither published report carries a cost, a timeline or a named certification track.
2 Sept 2026
Egypt readies 300,000 flu vaccine doses as the season approaches
VACSERA is to provide more than 300,000 doses of influenza vaccine, the Health Ministry says. Why timing, not supply, is usually the constraint.
30 Aug 2026
Two crashes, dozens of casualties, and the measures that are known to work
A collision in Ismailia killed 18, most of them children working as agricultural labourers. Another in Matrouh killed three and injured 64. Road deaths are among the most preventable there are.
30 Aug 2026