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Egyptian health and wellness platform Esaal raises $1.7M to scale across MENA

TechCrunch

As of 2018, Egypt’s doctor to citizen ratio stood at 1:2,000; you can paint a picture when you walk into any government hospital and see long queues. Doss said Esaal services are available in 7 other countries across MENA and the GCC: Saudi Arabia, Tunisia, Kuwait, Qatar, Bahrain, Palestine and Iraq.

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Platforms successfully stopped a lame COVID conspiracy video from going viral

The Verge

The more aggressive apps introduced in South Korea and Kuwait may have been more effective, but they also introduced privacy concerns. But the platforms’ actions on Tuesday showed us that progress is possible. They know how to do the right thing, and they can. Especially when the bad guys tell them where to look.

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