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Egyptian and Japanese officials tour nursing school under Egypt–Japan education cooperation
October 21, 2026 at 02:00 PM · Updated 15h ago
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Egypt's health and education ministers, with a Japanese education executive, toured the nursing school at Nasser Institute Hospital on October 21.
- Health Minister Khaled Abdel Ghaffar, Education Minister Mohamed Abdel Latif, and Kyoto Ikueikan CEO Hidataka Matsuo inspected the nursing school and institute at Nasser Institute Hospital.
- The tour covered classrooms and labs serving 240 female students across three grades of the three-year nursing secondary program.
- The visit follows a signed cooperation agreement between the Education Ministry and Kyoto Ikueikan to develop 20 technical schools into specialized nursing, IT, and elderly care schools.
- Abdel Ghaffar said nursing is a core pillar of the health system and directed expanding digital transformation in nursing schools and institutes.
- The Egypt–Japan agreement will convert 20 technical schools into 10 for nursing, five for IT, and five for elderly care.


