Egypt: End of free health care hits poor hardest
Hesham Gohary says he has been coming to the Health Ministry in central Cairo for weeks in the hope of getting free kidney dialysis treatment, but always leaves empty-handed.
The 54-year-old farmer is one of 35 000 low-income kidney failure patients whose collective US$118m (about R910m) health bill used to be footed by the government, until it recently declared its coffers empty.
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