The Egyptian Medical Syndicate is a
medical association with more than 230,000 registered members. About 65% of the members work outside
Egypt. It was founded in 1940 and is a semi-governmental organization existing primarily to help the Ministry of Health in conferring licenses to physicians. The 24-seat council is elected at the national level. The Doctors Without Rights Movement, founded in 2007, gained a majority on the council. Many of its members had an important role in the establishment of the field hospital in Tahrir Square during the early days of the
2011 protests in Egypt and it was the main opponent of the
Muslim Brotherhood
The Society of the Muslim Brothers ( ar, جماعة الإخوان المسلمين'' ''), better known as the Muslim Brotherhood ( ', is a transnational Sunni Islamist organization founded in Egypt by Islamic scholar and schoolteacher Hassan ...
within the syndicate.
Ehab el-Taher is the secretary-general.
References
External links Official website
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Medical associations
Medical and health organisations based in Egypt