Have you ever been staying overnight in a private Egyptian hospital?

1. It is the policy of the 7th floor ward not to provide bath towels in each room because this ward is a surgery ward, where they tend to use the towels to wipe blood off the floor.

2. The nurses do check every two hours.

3. The accountants leave at normal hours so you cannot leave the hospital when it is no longer required near midnight and must stay overnight before all your bills are accounted for.

4. The hospital charges 30% over any medicine you get from their pharmacy and call it "delivery charge".

5. The hospital room is all painted green. It is clean.

6. They do not have lock in the room.

7. The nurse needed three attempts before geting an intravenous procedure set up properly (meaning, blood pouring out everywhere from failed attempts)

8. The private bathroom is clean.

9. For 250 LE a night, you can get a single room with a view of the Pyramids of Giza, the Nile river and a showtime movie channel. That's just for the accomodation btw, not including the mandatory blood tests, medicine costs, etc. A guest staying over costs another 100LE a night.

10. The chicken dinner is recommended. It's actually one of the better grilled chicken I've had in Cairo. Go figure.

11. The fattest person in the ward is the head nurse (no lighter than 170 kilos I think).

12. Two doctors and two nurses on the floor speak English.

13. Methylprednisolone is a steroid and it takes about an hour to take through IV (mixed with glucose) - Glucose and all that IV kit costs 20 LE. The streroid costs 165LE.



Overall the service is competent.