Siemens Healthineers opens new premises of “Academy Egypt”
Siemens Healthineers, a leading medical technology company, recently opened new premises of its Siemens Healthineers “Academy Egypt” in Cairo, the first academy to be launched focusing on skill development and improving access to quality healthcare. The opening ceremony was attended by General Dr. Bahaa El-Din Zidan, Head of The Egyptian Authority for Unified Procurement “UPA” as well as leading KOLs from the healthcare sector in Egypt.
Siemens Healthineers Academy Egypt was founded in August 2018 with the objective to provide educational programs and academic courses to healthcare professionals and university students. The academy’s programs are designed to elevate the knowledge and experience of doctors, technicians, and biomedical engineers, powered by state-of-the-art digital educational solutions.
“Across the extraordinary projects and educational programs Siemens Healthineers “Academy Egypt” has delivered over the past four years, we have had the privilege of welcoming a very diverse list of attendees with more than 1,100 academy alumni across more than 100 sessions,” said Amro Kandil, Managing Director, Siemens Healthineers in Egypt, Sudan, Eritrea, Djibouti, and Libya. “Our training programs are designed to support healthcare professionals in leveraging their knowledge and experience to further advance local patient care to the highest international standards. I am certain that the new premises will continue to deliver on our strategic focus of access to care and address the challenge of lack of skilled manpower.”
“Improving access to healthcare is one of the major challenges worldwide. With the strategic focus on Access to Care, Siemens Healthineers is aiming to provide customized education programs to close the local capacity gaps, while addressing the issue of lack of trained medical professionals. The programs and facilities of the new premises of Siemens Healthineers “Academy Egypt” are designed to ensure participants are equipped with necessary skills to address the ongoing clinical challenges in the region, and to enable access to healthcare beyond the borders of Cairo and across the country, sustainably,” said Tisha Boatman, Head of Global Access to Care at Siemens Healthineers.