PM directs continuous monitoring of medicine, medical supply stocks at various hospitals

Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly has ordered continuous checks on medicine and medical-supply stocks at hospitals across Egypt, including facilities run by the Ministry of Health and university hospitals.

Madbouly issued the instruction during a meeting at the government headquarters in the New Capital on Wednesday, Sept. 2, 2026. The meeting brought together the health, finance and higher-education ministers, along with officials from the Egyptian Drug Authority and the Unified Procurement Authority.

The prime minister said Egypt had allocated about 90 billion Egyptian pounds in the current fiscal-year budget to secure medicines and medical supplies and build adequate hospital reserves. He also pointed to supply-chain disruptions linked to political developments and events in the region as a reason for maintaining close oversight.

Health Minister Khaled Abdel Ghaffar said stocks at ministry hospitals were currently at reassuring levels and that there was no chronic shortage. He said temporary shortages of some medicines could occur, but hospitals receive the required quantities through coordination with the Unified Procurement Authority.

Authority chairman Hisham Stait said the national medical-supply system now supports storage, distribution, procurement and inventory monitoring. About 38,000 healthcare workers use it across 11,000 medical facilities, according to Stait, who said the system aims to reduce waste, improve spending efficiency and support decisions based on unified data.