Prime Minister Dr. Mostafa Madbouly met today with Major General Amr Hanafy, Governor of the Red Sea, to follow up on the implementation status of a number of service and development projects in the governorate, in the presence of Dr. Manal Awad, Minister of Local Development.
The Prime Minister stressed that the meeting aims to review the pace of work on ongoing projects in the Red Sea Governorate across several important service and development sectors, and to discuss what is needed to push the work forward so the projects can be completed and enter service as soon as possible, serving the people of the Red Sea and helping to strengthen the governorate's development capabilities in light of its promising economic, tourism and entertainment assets.
The Red Sea Governor opened the meeting by reviewing the status of the drinking water sector in the governorate, explaining that work is under way on 3 main tracks in this sector, in line with the Prime Minister's directives to the relevant ministries and bodies, to resolve the problems that emerged recently. Work has begun on upgrading the Al-Yusr plant, while the Cairo Drinking Water Company is following up on the implementation of works on the Kuraymat line, in addition to paying the advance payments for the implementation of a number of new desalination plants.
In this context, the Prime Minister directed that all these works be followed up weekly, helping to resolve the governorate's water problems radically, and also directed follow-up on hotels' compliance with operating their own desalination plants.
During the meeting, Major General Amr Hanafy, Governor of the Red Sea, presented part of the governorate's efforts to develop its own resources, noting that in light of the political leadership's directives to maximize governorates' own resources, and in line with the state's general policy of improving the image and visual appearance of all cities, the Red Sea Governorate has taken many measures to improve its image and visual appearance, including creating several tourist walkways and gardens and planting the medians of main streets, in addition to using vacant land plots within Hurghada to build distinguished investment housing buildings that are sold through public auctions to maximize the governorate's own resources.
Major General Amr Hanafy noted that the projects under way in the health sector include many projects, among them the construction of a cardiac catheterization building at Hurghada General Hospital and the upgrading of the same hospital's inpatient accommodation building, according to the official Facebook page of the Egyptian Cabinet.
