The UAE has handed over to Egypt on Tuesday 78 fully-equipped clinics in 23 governorates to serve 780,000 people in 78 remote villages as part of a social and economic development programme. The projects also include 50,016 houses for low-income Egyptian families, 100 schools with 1,668 classrooms across 18 governorates to serve 67,000 students. The handover event, which took place at the Egyptian Prime Minister, Ebrahim Mahlab’s office on Tuesday, saw Dr Sultan Bin Ahmad Sultan Al Jaber, UAE Minister of State and Chairman of the Coordination Office of the UAE-funded Development Projects in Egypt, signing off on the completed UAE projects along with four Egyptian ministers. The completion of the projects comes on the eve of Egypt’s much anticipated inauguration of the New Suez Canal on Thursday, in which the UAE has also played a significant supporting role.
