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The seven-year-old boy inherited congenital deafness and mutism from his parents, but due to the absence of sign language interpreters in the hospitals he was admitted to, he also developed glaucoma. As a result of the delayed diagnosis, Youssef lost his vision. A series of disappointing visits to government hospitals in Beheira and Alexandria governorates; an agitated child; and a mother and father desperately trying to explain their situation with hand gestures. The three of them are deaf and mute; they cannot hear, nor speak, and as a result, cannot tell their story. Over three million deaf people struggle on a daily basis while dealing with government institutions in Egypt. This led several government institutions to announce the introduction of new sign language training programmes for their employees. We accompanied three deaf persons and their families on a tour of government institutions in three Egyptian governorates: Cairo, Bani Suef in Upper Egypt, and Beheira in the Nile Delta. Hearing loss is the result of complications at birth, certain infectious diseases, some types of chronic ear infections, use of certain drugs, exposure to excessive noise and aging. Ophthalmologist Sharif Jamal told us that a delayed diagnosis of glaucoma can lead to a variety of complications, including the destruction of the optic nerve and vision loss. He explained that cases of glaucoma, especially among children, need rapid and decisive intervention to save the child's eyesight. Unfortunately, this did not happen to Youssef four years ago, according to his deaf father, Mohammad Habashi. Through this improvised method of communication, Asrar was able to start a dialogue and succeed in getting an accurate diagnosis, which needed urgent surgery. Youssef was admitted to the operating room, and despite the success of the drainage surgery, it was too late to save his eye sight. The Ministry of Health and other relevant ministries are legally obliged to make medical services available to people with disabilities, and the law recognises sign language as an official language for people with hearing disabilities. A number of governmental institutions in Egypt announced that they are training their employees to use sign language, which the Egyptian Institution for the Rights of the Deaf helped organising. Unfortunately, the training was in vain and did not have any positive effects on these institutions. She says that the training did not make a difference, as the experiment was not generalised to all government institutions, and that over time, some employees forgot what they had learnt. Youssef and his family live in the Beheira governorate, and in , we documented through video and audio footage what Youssef and his mother had to go through during a field visit to a government hospital. Youssef and his mother were received by an employee who was not aware of their disabilities at first, and kept repeating the same question: 'What do you want? Inside the examination room, the nursing staff stood helplessly in front of Youssef. They tried to decipher what the child was complaining about from his deaf mother, but no one understood their gestures or sign language. The doctor came in and was also unable to diagnose the condition, so, once again, Hanan left the hospital disappointed. Mohammad and Mahmoud are two deaf brothers who live in the southern province of Bani Suef. They come from a middle-income family; their father, Yasser Fathi, works as a tuk-tuk auto rickshaw driver. According to their parents, Mohammad, 19, became deaf and mute after a number of surgeries, and Mahmoud, 16, was born deaf. Mahmoud went to Bani Suef University Hospital, which was the first hospital to announce the use of a certified sign language interpreter in the emergency department, according to its administration. Mahmoud was received by a nurse who denied that the hospital had a sign language interpreter or a specialist doctor. She asked Mahmoud to return the following day for an examination with a doctor who would try to diagnose him through gestures. The situation there was not better. Mahmoud asked the receptionist for the sign language interpreter, but, again, the receptionist denied having one, and directed him towards the examination room. Inside, a female doctor tried to understand the year old, but her attempts did not succeed, and after she eventually concluded that the pain was in his stomach, prescribed some analgesics. ARIJ contacted the Ministry of Health via email on May 7, , but to date, has not received a response, despite several follow up attempts through the Ministry's press office. Haitham Sam, 37, works for a pharmaceutical company, and spent a whole day running around the Ministry of Supply and Internal Trading, going from one office to the next, and being referred from one employee to the next, as no one could understand him, nor cared to listen. He eventually found an employee who cared enough to try to understand his hand gestures, but to no avail. The employee thought he was requesting a new supply card, while all he wanted was to add a new beneficiary to the one he has. Haitham eventually left the ministry with his request unheard, and unanswered. After a visit to the Ministry of Supply, we headed to a branch of Banque Misr Cairo, where Haitham wanted to make adjustments to his bank account. The situation there was no different to that at the Ministry of Supply, as, again, Haitham could not find anyone who understood him. The listed literacy percentages among the deaf and hearing impaired people according to the Egyptian Central Agency for Public Mobilisation and Statistics published in First Undersecretary of the Ministry of Education for Special Education Affairs, Hala Abdel Salam, stated that the number of schools for the deaf in Egypt nationwide is only , and only three of those schools is for the hard of hearing. Researcher at the deaf affairs, Mona Safwat, says that schools for the deaf pay more attention to vocational training, such as carpentry, decoration and sewing, than to academic teaching like reading and writing skills. In , hundreds of deaf people demonstrated in front of the Egyptian Radio and Television Union building known as the Maspero building , demanding access to accurate news reporting using a uniform and standardised sign language. Hundreds of demonstrators protested that sign language interpreters on television screens use an uncommon language, leaving them unable to understand what is being said. Osama also called for a larger sign language interpreter screen, which usually appears at the bottom of the TV, impeding their ability to follow-up on events, adding that sign language is not always available for all programmes and newscasts. In , and within the framework of a cooperation protocol with the Ministry of Education, the Coptic Church presented a sign language dictionary to the Egyptian Ministry of Education, also describing it as 'the first of its kind' in the Middle East. However, none of these attempts solved the problem, which is extremely apparent at government institutions when delivering a message across to the deaf, the hearing impaired, hard of hearing, and their accompanying sign language interpreters. I feel that I am not even human, everyone treats me and the deaf as if we are animals. This is the literal translation of what Hanan Mohsen, 57, said in sign language. In , she spent over three hours inside a Real Estate Registry Office in Abdin, in an attempt to persuade the office employees to issue a general power of attorney to her only son, so that he could manage her bank account, to pay his university fees, but her attempts were unsuccessful as they refused to conduct any formal transaction with her without the presence of a certified sign language interpreter, which she in turn refused due to her lack of confidence in them. Accredited translator Sharif Adam, empathises that this lack of confidence in sign language translators is due to various disputes he had witnessed. These disputes were mainly due to errors in the translation of the demands of the deaf people to officials in government institutions. This is a direct result of the lack of a uniform dictionary of sign language, which resulted not only in deepening the difficulties of the deaf but also in hindering the fulfilment of their needs. Adam defends his colleagues saying that there are clear differences between deaf and hard-of-hearing signals and their translation is mastered by most sign language interpreters. Prior to , the Ministry of Justice required that the deaf bring a judicial assistant before conducting any governmental transactions at the Real Estate Registry Office. According to the Head of the Egyptian Institution for the Rights of the Deaf, Nadia Abdullah, the deaf need to submit a request to the court to appoint a relative of theirs as an aide or judicial assistant and attach to it a medical report of their health status. They would then wait for a hearing for a judge to approve such request. The Egyptian Institution for the Rights of the Deaf obtained a judicial ruling from the Administrative Judicial Court in June , obliging the Minister of Justice and the Real Estate Registration Authority to put multiple options in real estate registry transactions with the deaf, according to Nadia Abdullah. She noted that the ruling permits the educated deaf to use writing to express their demands, and to complete their own procedures without a judicial assistant or translator. The ruling also allowed the use of an accredited sign language interpreter by organisations or associations for the deaf. However, some employees of the Real Estate Registry Offices were intransigent in implementing the ruling, while others were unaware of it, particularly the item allowing 'literate' deaf people to follow up on their transactions in writing, according to what Abdullah and some of the deaf reported. The staff at the registration office refused to issue the power of attorney based on a written request, and required him to bring an accredited sign language interpreter to finalise the issue. The same incident occurred with Hanan Mohsen again in May , where an employee at the Abdin Real Estate Registry Office was intransigent in finalising a written request to issue a contract for an NGO for the deaf which is still in the process of establishment. She informed the employee that she was a university professor and could express her demands clearly and without a sign language interpreter, but the employee refused. ARIJ sent an official letter to the Ministry of Justice via email, on May 7, , but have not received a response to date. Counselor Majed Abu Bakr, a member of the technical office in the Real Estate Registration Department of the Egyptian Ministry of Justice, responded saying that a newsletter was sent to all real estate registry offices informing them to complete the transactions of the literate deaf people in writing. Abu Bakr asked the affected people to submit official memorandums and pledged to deliver them to relevant parties for further examination specifically the investigation authorities, adding that there is periodic monitoring and follow-up on the Real Estate Registry Offices. We also tried to communicate with the National Council for Disability Affairs more than once over the phone, to present the findings of the investigation, but could not make contact. However, the former secretary general of the National Council for Disability Affairs and member of the House of Representatives, Heba Hajras, attributes this crisis with deaf and hard of hearing crisis to the fact that the human rights movement for people with hearing disabilities falls always behind, as it moves at a slower pace than movements of othergroups representing the interests of other disabilities. She says that this is due to the fact that the deaf and hard of hearing people deny that they are people with disabilities, but rather they believe that they are people who communicate through a different language, which is an issue prevalent not only in Egypt but also globally. Investigation: Ayat Khairy. Watch a 2 minute summary of the investigation. High contrast. Low contrast. Increase font size. According to the Egyptian Mobilisation and Statistics Authority announcement in Estimated by the National Authority for Disability Affairs during a press conference. Source: World Health Organisation. A Third Disability Ophthalmologist Sharif Jamal told us that a delayed diagnosis of glaucoma can lead to a variety of complications, including the destruction of the optic nerve and vision loss. Training of Employees A number of governmental institutions in Egypt announced that they are training their employees to use sign language, which the Egyptian Institution for the Rights of the Deaf helped organising. The Ministry of Social Solidarity. Ministry of Justice. National Bank of Egypt. The Ministry of Manpower. The Holding Company for Drinking Water. Beni Suef Governorate. Did not announce a number. Minya Governorate. Sohag Governorate. Assiut Governorate. Luxor Governorate. New Valley Governorate. Matrouh Governorate. Between Three Governorates Youssef and his family live in the Beheira governorate, and in , we documented through video and audio footage what Youssef and his mother had to go through during a field visit to a government hospital. On Foot all Day Haitham Sam, 37, works for a pharmaceutical company, and spent a whole day running around the Ministry of Supply and Internal Trading, going from one office to the next, and being referred from one employee to the next, as no one could understand him, nor cared to listen. A Standardised Dictionary of Sign Language In , hundreds of deaf people demonstrated in front of the Egyptian Radio and Television Union building known as the Maspero building , demanding access to accurate news reporting using a uniform and standardised sign language. Power of Attorney I feel that I am not even human, everyone treats me and the deaf as if we are animals.

Drug Testing: A Tool for Unfair Employee Dismissals in Egypt

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On May 22, the Helwan Medical District hospitals and centers received a decision from the Ministry of Health, instructing them to conduct drug tests for the staff and medical personnel in the area between May 24 and June 1 at the Health Insurance Hospital in Helwan. According to several medical sector workers interviewed by Zawia3, they were surprised by the decision. The workers went to the designated hospital for the test but found that the drug test kits were out of stock by 11 AM on the first day. The instructions to the hospitals threatened that anyone who failed to take the test would be denied promotion and raises or even dismissed from their job. This is reminiscent of the crisis involving employees dismissed under Law No. Law No. In October, the Supreme Administrative Court issued the first ruling of its kind following the implementation of the law in It ruled in favor of reinstating an employee to his job and paying him his full salary and benefits. The court based its decision on the fact that the forensic lab did not send the confirmation of the sample within the day period specified by the executive regulations of Law No. Instead, the forensic lab sent the result two months after the test, prompting the court to reinstate the employee. However, this case is considered rare, as stated by Fathi Nefady, a dismissed insurance inspector. He mentioned in an interview with Zawia3 that during a court session for his case at the State Council, the session secretary explicitly told him that the case would be dismissed due to directives from higher authorities to reject any lawsuit and not to reinstate any employee to their government job. During those days, I had the flu, which forced me to take medication and injections for several days. Despite this, I went for the required test, fully believing it would be negative since I do not use any drugs. However, the result was shocking; it came back positive. I was forced to sign a report by the committee, with a promise that I could retake the test at the forensic lab. The next day, I went to retake the test, only to find that they would re-test the same sample and that I would have to pay the fee, as the law allows retesting the same sample within 24 hours. If the first sample was positive, how could it change in the second test? What if the sample had deteriorated? He added that 55 days after the test, a decision to dismiss him from work was issued in May When he went to the legal affairs department at work, they told him, according to their interpretation of the law, that the dismissal was temporary and that he could return to work if he took a new drug test within three months and the result was negative. He mentioned that he has been dismissed for over a year now and that the litigation process is slow. After 14 years of working in the government with diligence, honor, and efficiency—as confirmed by all the annual performance reports—I was dismissed from my job for a crime I did not commit. This led to a decrease in the family income, and I had to work as a private driver after being an inspector preparing for a promotion in the insurance authority. What are we supposed to do now? Mohamed Kamal, an employee in the customer service sector of the Drinking Water and Sanitation Company in Shubra El Kheima, who was also dismissed, suffers from the same issue. He had worked for the company since , with excellent annual reports, according to him. In March , he was surprised by a committee at his workplace conducting drug tests. I had informed my manager that I intended to leave early because my mother was in the hospital. After waiting for a while, I was informed of her death and had to wait to complete the burial permits. I rushed to the committee head to retrieve my ID card, but he refused and ordered me to stay for the test. He filed a grievance with the Drug Control Fund, believing it was accepted after signing a document, only to be told to take the test again. He continued working for 16 days, but was later shocked by a decision to suspend him for three months until the confirmatory sample result from the Ministry of Health came in, despite not having taken any tests at all. I submitted multiple grievances, but two weeks later, the company responded that it was not their jurisdiction and filed the grievances. I submitted a new grievance to the Drug Control Fund, but it was rejected verbally. On the last day of the three-month period, I received a letter indicating termination of service and dismissal in May In the second session, the case was dismissed on the grounds that an employee cannot be imposed on the employer, which is not applicable since I am a public employee without an employer. I filed an appeal, but it was rejected for the same reason without hearing the witnesses of the incident. Mohamed Kamal, a dismissed employee from the Drinking Water and Sanitation Company, shares his financial struggles following his sudden job termination. I worked for four months in the artisan area as a laborer for 14 hours a day, then moved to a restaurant in the First Settlement for three months. But the salaries were so meager that they barely covered the needs of my family, consisting of my wife and three children. Kamal and Nefady, along with other state employees dismissed under the Drug Testing Law, had taken loans guaranteed by their public employment. Their job loss and halted salaries have affected their ability to repay the loan installments and accrued interest. According to several testimonies we received, job dismissals have led to some employees being imprisoned for failing to repay debts. Additionally, two employees have died; one suffered a heart attack unable to bear the perceived unjust decision, and the other committed suicide immediately due to administrative harassment. Many others have lost familial ties and suffered social stigma in their communities. For example, in Beni Suef, Upper Egypt, 16 teachers tested positive for drug use, leading to social stigmatization and divorce, even though they asserted they were only taking medications that showed similar results. Shorouk Mohamed Hassan, the daughter of a dismissed employee of the Egyptian Tax Authority who lives in El-Ayyat, explains the severe injustice her family faced. They were evicted from their family home and had to take a loan from the bank to secure a simple home on land owned by her maternal grandfather. We were expecting his upcoming promotion as a tax officer in the Omraneya Tax Authority in Giza. He now works as a day laborer whenever he can. In response to Law No. Workers and employees from 44 government agencies were dismissed due to the incorrect application of the law, which did not consider social and humanitarian aspects, according to Fatima Fouad, Secretary of Workers at the Conservative Party and President of the Tax Workers Union. They were shocked by the number of dismissed employees, which we estimated to be around thousand, according to our circles. Only MP Atef Maghawry, a member of the Legislative Committee in the Parliament and head of the parliamentary body of the Tagammu Party, responded, promising to submit a proposal to amend the law. MP Atef Maghawry submitted a request to amend the law, which was referred to a joint committee from the Manpower and the Constitutional and Legislative Affairs Committees. The proposed amendment aims to prevent the dismissal of an employee from the first instance of drug use detection, suggesting that warnings should be given first. He justified this by stating that the law was intended to address negative social phenomena, not to destroy families economically after dismissing the breadwinner. She argues this indicates a systematic plan to eliminate more employees without granting them their entitlements under the new Social Insurance Law No. The law limits this to cases of complete disability or death within one year of employment termination to receive a pension, or waiting until the retirement age to receive the pension and end-of-service gratuity. This applies to dismissed employees, who will receive their pensions only upon reaching 60 or their death, whichever comes first. Fouad describes the drug testing procedures as unregulated, often conducted in inhumane conditions. She told Zawia3 that some committees lacked proper legal formation, such as the absence of a forensic representative, which should invalidate the procedures if the law were applied correctly. She criticized the drug test kits for being of poor quality and producing inaccurate results compared to blood tests. Many employees, who are patients taking various medications like cold and cough medicines or fertility drugs, showed positive results despite providing proof of their medical conditions. But now, everyone is being dismissed, and the numbers are increasing. The application of Law No. The latter states that an employee cannot be dismissed for drug use unless caught in the act at work. Mustafa Zaki, a cassation lawyer and labor advisor who successfully reinstated six dismissed employees since through legal cases, explained that the law applies to employees of any company or entity in which the state has a stake. Before this law, two laws applied to civil servants concerning drug use; the first for public sector workers under the Civil Service Law allowed dismissal for addiction, not mere use, after a six-month treatment opportunity. The second for private sector workers under the Labor Law required the employee to be visibly affected by drug use at work to be dismissed. He also noted the absence of a graded penalty system, leading to immediate dismissal. Thousands of dismissed state employees await reinstatement or legislative amendments to a law that, they argue, subjected many to clear injustice and shattered numerous families due to economic hardships and social stigma. Egyptian families are struggling with the potential cancellation of in-kind subsidies, facing higher food prices and inflation as they rely on government support to meet their basic needs. Egyptian workers in Saudi Arabia face significant challenges under the Kafala system, including exploitation, illegal detention, and the threat of escape reports, despite announced reforms to improve their conditions. Facebook X-twitter Instagram Linkedin. Workers in Egypt face financial hardships and social stigma from sudden job terminations under the drug testing law. Rabab Azzam. The Law Law No. Debts Are Haunting Us Mohamed Kamal, a dismissed employee from the Drinking Water and Sanitation Company, shares his financial struggles following his sudden job termination. An Egyptian investigative journalist interested in human rights and labor journalism, a radio program host, and a researcher in Swahili-speaking East African studies. Facebook Twitter. Browse the author's articles. Fears Grow Over Cancelling In-Kind Subsidies in Egypt Egyptian families are struggling with the potential cancellation of in-kind subsidies, facing higher food prices and inflation as they rely on government support to meet their basic needs. Editorial Policy for Zawia3. Contact Us. Subscribe to the newsletter. See all results.

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