{"id":16926,"date":"2026-09-21T16:41:04","date_gmt":"2026-09-21T14:41:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zawia3.com\/?p=16926"},"modified":"2026-10-24T20:29:19","modified_gmt":"2026-10-24T18:29:19","slug":"pharmacist-delivery-egypt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zawia3.com\/en\/pharmacist-delivery-egypt\/","title":{"rendered":"A Pharmacist Earns Less Than a Customer-Service Worker in Egypt"},"content":{"rendered":"

It did not take <\/span>the scene<\/span><\/a> more than a few minutes to prove its strangeness. A man wearing the clothes of a <\/span>delivery<\/span><\/a> worker bearing the “Talabat” logo, riding an electric scooter through the streets of Cairo, carrying an order to a customer. The reply came quickly when “Mina” realised that someone was filming him with a mobile phone camera: “I am a doctor of pharmacy.”<\/span><\/p>\n

Pharmacists in Egypt suffer from overlapping difficulties, most notably the erosion of the working capital of individual pharmacies and legislative stagnation accompanied by institutional paralysis resulting from the imposition of judicial <\/span>receivership<\/span><\/a> on the General Syndicate of Pharmacists in February 2019.<\/span><\/p>\n

On 13 February 2019, the Court of Urgent Matters ruled to impose judicial <\/span>receivership<\/span><\/a> on the General Syndicate of Pharmacists following disputes within the Syndicate’s board, and the ruling was actually implemented on 30 April 2019 with the appointment of a judicial receiver to run it, which led to the suspension of syndicate elections and the absence of a legitimate negotiating umbrella to review government assignment decisions, reach fair tax agreements, or oblige companies to comply with the terms of Decree 499.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And <\/span>data<\/span><\/a> indicate that the number of pharmacists registered with the Syndicate reaches 370,000. Egypt has 74 faculties of pharmacy, only 23 of them at public universities, <\/span>which graduate<\/span><\/a> together about 25,000 a year.<\/span><\/p>\n

Egypt has 74 pharmacy faculties, only 23 of them public<\/figcaption>

Pharmacy faculties by type of university<\/p>

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University type<\/th>Faculties<\/th><\/tr><\/thead>
Public universities<\/td>23<\/bdi><\/td><\/tr>
National (ahliya) universities<\/td>20<\/bdi><\/td><\/tr>
Private universities<\/td>26<\/bdi><\/td><\/tr>
Institutions treated as private<\/td>5<\/bdi><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/div>
Source: news archive<\/span>