At least 64 people have been injured after several passenger train cars left the track and overturned on the railway line that connects El Cairo with Asuán, at the level of the Jarza crossing, in the Egyptian governorate of Guiza, according to what the Ministry of Health of Egypt has reported.
52 ambulances have been dispatched to the site of the accident to provide immediate assistance to the affected travelers and proceed with their transfer to different health centers. According to official data, 54 of the injured have been referred to the Al Wasta hospital, in the governorate of Beni Suef, while the other ten have been admitted to the Al Ayyat Hospital, in Guiza.
The Health Minister, Khaled Abdel Ghaffar, has ordered to reinforce the operational capacity and response of all hospitals and health centers in both governorates in order to ensure the medical and emergency care that the victims of the derailment require.
Likewise, the ministerial portfolio has stressed that it maintains a "constant follow-up" on the condition of the injured and that it is providing all of them with "full medical care".