Egypt's drug authority wins seven seats on African Medicines Agency committees

Egypt's Drug Authority has secured seven seats on the technical committees of the African Medicines Agency during the agency's opening week in Kigali, Rwanda.

• Health Minister Khaled Abdel Ghaffar congratulated the authority, chaired by Ali El-Ghamrawy, on winning the seats.
• Abdel Ghaffar affirmed the authority will continue transferring expertise and building institutional capacity to support African regulatory integration.
• Ministry spokesman Hossam Abdel Ghaffar said the seats span medical devices, pharmaceutical and biological evaluation, inspection, market surveillance, quality control, pharmacovigilance, and clinical trials.