Egyptian president inaugurates projects in Sohag recipient of LE102B-worth of public investments

President Abdel Fatah al-Sisi inaugurated Thursday a university, hospital, highway and industrial complex in Upper Egypt's Sohag where public investments worth LE102 billion have been injected since 2014.

Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouli stated during the ceremony that 6,340 new classrooms were built in Sohag at a cost of LE2 billion, and that the government had built and equipped 32 hospitals and medical units at a cost of LE5.4 billion. Moreover, a children’s hospital is under construction in the governorate, and its capacity will be 263 beds.

As for the projects inaugurated by the president, they are the newly-built Sohag University Hospital, having a capacity of 300 beds and worth LE1 billion, and the new Sohag University worth LE2.8 billion and consisting of 10 schools. Three of those offer science majors, while the rest offer non-science schools.

The university's campus spans over 1,000 feddans, with a built-up area of 750 feddans. The prime minister noted that there is a plan to build another university in the governorate as well.