Al-Ahram Weekly On-line
30 July - 5 August 1998
Issue No.388
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Assylium 'Entitled to a decent life'
A few months after the Ministry of Health takeover of five state-run mental hospitals, efforts have been made to improve services. Gihan Shahine reviews the changes and wonders whether more should be done to improve mental health care in Egypt
122 Hello, emergency
All Egyptian children know that, in case of an emergency, they have to dial 122. But what happens after that? Sahar El-Bahr spent a day with the force