China launches program in Egypt for burns treatment

CAIRO – 14 December 2018: China's MEBO International launched a program on Tuesday in Egypt as a part of the UN initiative for supporting Egyptian hospitals to treat women and children suffering burns.

With the program, named UN Every Woman Every Child China Partnership Network Life Regeneration Action Program in Egypt, "MEBO targets at treating around 200 cases and training 2,000 medical staff in eight public hospitals," Kevin P. Xu, chairman of MEBO International, told Xinhua in an interview.

"We are planning to spend 350,000 U.S. dollars and establish eight centers for researches on technology for curing patients of burns in Egypt till the end of 2020," Xu said.

MEBO International was founded in 1987, inventing the burn regenerative medical technology, has been a pioneer in human body regenerative restoration science.

The company, which has headquarters in China as well as the United States, Thailand, India and Malaysia, focuses on the treatment of burns, wounds, ulcers and skin regeneration. Some of its products include medical and health care products, nutritional supplements, cosmetics and skincare products and medical devices.

The MEBO initiative first started with hospitals that have more experience in treating the patients with the MEBO medicine, said Magdy al-Saaty, chairman of the gulf medical company Julphar that manufactures MEBO medicine in the United Arab Emirates (UAE)

"Each country will benefit and gain more experience from the initiative based on the nature of the targeted society," al-Saaty said.
"The initiative will run in stages. The first will start with four public hospitals that have the largest burn units in Cairo, and then will continue in other provinces of Daqahlia, Assuit, and Alexandria," he said.

MEBO will distribute medicine and aid for women and children who are receiving treatment for burns in the targetted hospitals, he added.

The UN initiative Every Woman Every Child was formally launched by former UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon in September 2010 with an aim to reduce child mortality and improvement of maternal heath through global collaboration.