The owners of the two largest pharmacies in Egypt have been removed from the Ministry of Health

Details of the resolution:

• Drs Ahmed El Ezaby and Hatem Roushdy were finally removed from the pharmacists' registers of the Ministry of Health.
• In June 2018, the Supreme Constitutional Court of Egypt ruled on the constitutionality of Article 30 of Law No. 127 of 1955, which prohibited the possession of a pharmacist to more than two pharmacies.
• The Cairo Court of Appeal decided in March 2019 to uphold the decision of the Disciplinary Committee of the Pharmacists Union to abandon members of Ahmed El-Ezaby and Hatem Roushdy, owners of two famous pharmacies. .
• For decades, Dr. Ahmed El-Ezaby has been recognized as one of Egypt's largest pharmacy chain owners, owning more than 90 pharmacies in different governorates of the same name. He started creating this series in 1975.

Dr. Ahmed El-Ezaby's comment on the decision to withdraw his name from the Syndicate of Pharmacists' archives during a televised intervention:

• This decision was made by an organization that is not responsible for the pharmacy sector and is virtually non-existent.
• The Ministry of Health has nothing to do with this decision: El-Ezaby pharmacies have not been closed and will continue to provide their services.
• The body that drafted this decision is not responsible for pharmacists or pharmacies.
• The problem started because of an electoral dispute with the Muslim Brotherhood because of my support for a candidate in union elections other than their candidate and they set up disciplinary committees for me, and there are still some vestiges of the pharmaceutical sector.
• He added that the decision to withdraw his name from the Syndicate of Pharmacists' archives was "final".

Remarks of Dr. Ahmed Rami Al-Hofi, former Treasurer of the Syndicate of Pharmacists on the decision:

• Ahmed El-Ezaby is not the only one to own a large chain of pharmacies. This decision, which seems to be legally visible, is certainly in the political background.
• The decision to strike out Ezaby is not a decision of the Ministry of Health, but a court decision rendered more than a year ago and which has not yet been implemented. It is therefore certain that there is a new variable and that the system seeks to implement the decision.
• El-Ezaby has long said that he is the Minister of Health in Egypt, so there is a political context in this decision.
• On a procedural level, this decision does not mean anything on the ground because the pharmacies affiliated to the El-Ezaby chain are not written in their full name. It will not be based on closing a pharmacy.

Ahmed El Ezaby is not that a pharmacist:

• During the reign of former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, El-Ezaby was a prominent leader of the NDP and led several well-known organizing centers, including (the secretary of national party professionals in Cairo).
• El-Ezaby was also a former adviser to the Egyptian Ministry of Health.
• El-Ezaby has forged many ties of friendship with symbols and elites of Egyptian society, including journalist Adel Hamouda, editor-in-chief of Al-Fajr newspaper.

Ambiguous policy role:

• An old official source of the Syndicate of Pharmacists directly addressed Al-Jazeera, saying it was certain that the recent decision to remove Al-Ezabi from the Syndicate of Pharmacists' archives had political reasons.
• The source, who declined to be named, also linked the decision to remove Al-Ezabi from the Syndicate of Pharmacists' archives to the broadcast of a new chain of pharmacies named (19011). Egypt
• The source continued, Ahmed El-Ezaby was a center of strength at the Ministry of Health and was among those who decide to choose the Minister of Health who is appointed.
• The same source said that Ahmed al-Ezabi had played a political role in the aftermath of the January 2011 revolution by organizing meetings between different political forces and other media among several of his pharmacies.
• After the January Revolution, he added that the room was attached to one of Ezaby's pharmacies during meetings between members of the military council and representatives of various political forces.
• The website of Al-Jazeera Mubasher contacts the El-Ezaby Pharmacy Department in Cairo to obtain his comments about this information, but we have not received a response.

Wallpaper resolution:

• The latest decision taken against Dr. Ahmed El-Ezaby has its roots in the aftermath of the January 2011 revolution, when the Council of Pharmaceutical Unions in Egypt decided to enact the law banning the pharmacist to own more than two pharmacies.
• In 2011, the Disciplinary Committee of the Syndicate of Pharmacists made a decision to open an investigation into the possession of a large number of pharmacies in violation of the law.
• El-Ezaby appealed the union's decision to the Court of Appeal, but his appeal was dismissed and it was decided to uphold the union's decision.
• Although it has been more than a year since Dr. Ahmed El-Ezaby's appeal against the decision of the Union of Pharmacists was rejected, the decision to withdraw his name from the union's archives was rendered yesterday. The regime of former President Hosni Mubarak.