Egypt mourns its ‘doctor of the poor’Mohammed Mashaly, renowned for the low fees he charged his patients, has died at the age of 76CAIRO: “I pledged to God that I would not take a penny from a poor person and that I would remain in my clinic to help the poor.” This selfless statement sums up the attitude and benevolence of Egyptian doctor Mohammed Mashaly, who died on Tuesday morning at the age of 76.
Thousands of people turned out to pay their respects and say farewell to Mashaly — known simply as “the doctor of the poor” — in his home village of Zahr El-Temsah, in the Beheira governorate of northern Egypt. His body was taken there from the city of Tanta, where he lived and worked.
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