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Amnesty International condemned on Tuesday a new law on privatising Egypt’s public healthcare facilities that will likely jeopardise the accessibility and availability of health services in the country, where about one-third of the nearly 106 million total population is below the poverty line. The London-based watchdog accused the Egyptian parliament in a statement of “expediting the adoption of the law without adequate consultations with stakeholders and despite serious concerns raised by the Doctors’ Syndicate.” The government-proposed law, approved by the lower-house of the parliament in Ma…

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