Egypt's Al-Maqtam Health Insurance Hospital receives first liver-transplant license in authority's history

Al-Maqtam Hospital for Health Insurance has obtained license No. 86 of 2026 from Egypt's Supreme Committee for Human Organ Transplantation to perform liver transplants.

• The license brings liver transplantation into the hospitals of the General Authority for Health Insurance for the first time since the authority's founding.
• Tamer Madkour, head of the General Authority for Health Insurance, said the Al-Maqtam hospital already performs kidney transplants and will now add liver surgery.
• Mohamed Abdullah, the hospital's director, said the facility met the committee's requirements and equipped its unit to the approved standards.
• Mohamed Raslan, director of the authority's Cairo branch, said the service is available to health insurance beneficiaries in Cairo governorate.