Public health
Clinical medicine treats one person at a time. Public health looks after the other 300,000 — and the guests.
I serve as Director and Health Inspector at the Sharm El-Sheikh Health Office, part of the South Sinai Health Directorate under Egypt's Ministry of Health and Population. The office is the local arm of the public health system in a city whose population multiplies with each tourist season.
What the health office does
- Inspection and licensing — hotels, restaurants, food outlets, swimming pools, clinics and pharmacies, against national health regulations
- Immunisation — routine childhood vaccination and national campaigns, most recently the 2026 measles and rubella campaign, with micro-planning for every district of the city
- Vital registration — births and deaths, including ICD-10 cause-of-death certification and the medical review of deaths among foreign nationals
- Communicable disease surveillance — notifiable disease reporting, outbreak investigation in hotels and the community, and food- and water-borne illness response
- Environmental health — drinking water and pool water quality, sewage and waste, vector control
- Emergency preparedness — the office's role in mass gatherings, conferences and public health emergencies
Work I've led
Why it matters for patients
The two halves of my work feed each other. In the clinic I see the patterns the office needs to know about; at the office I see the conditions — water, food, pools, crowding — that explain what walks into the clinic. Visitors get a doctor who knows what is actually circulating in the city this week, and hotels get an inspector who understands the clinical consequences of the rules.
For hotels and businesses
Outside my official role, I offer training for hotel and clinic staff in food safety, infection control, first aid and outbreak response, and consultancy on health and safety compliance and medical-tourism accreditation.