Hotels and resorts in the city of Safaga in the Red Sea have begun to receive visitors from Europe with the launch of medical tourism services.
The onset of the annual medical tourism season in April brings with it turnout for these hotels, according to confirmed reservations.
Safaga city mayor Yasser Shaaban told Al-Masry Al-Youm that the beaches of Safaga hotels started receiving medical tourists, as the weather is currently characterized by bright sun and moderate temperature during the day, in addition to warm water and black sand rich in natural minerals that characterize the beaches of Safaga.
Shaaban added that these hotels also have equipped burial places in the sand on the beach, with medical teams and assistive devices.
Published scientific research indicates that the Safaga waters have a high degree of salinity, which reaches more than 55 parts per million of salts and minerals which help in treating many incurable diseases.
The Safaga beach is also rich in gold salts, due to the presence of heavy salts present in the torrential waters descending from the high mountains surrounding the bay.
These contain rocks rich in gold salts and important elements that mix with torrential waters and sediment in sea silt.
Patients come to bath in these waters, and then their skin is exposed to ultraviolet sunlight in the early morning and before sunset.
The Ministry of Tourism considered locations for first launching the medical tourism project in 2019, mentioning the chemical content of the Red Sea waters and the presence of coral reefs that help to cure psoriasis.
Egypt has 16 inland and coastal locations where natural treatments for many diseases are available, such as Helwan, Ain Assera, Ain Sokhna, Hurghada, Fayoum, Siwa Oasis, Aswan, Sinai and Safaga on the Red Sea.
Egypt also has many sulfurous and mineral springs that have unique chemical compounds sometimes exceeding rates of all other sulfurous and mineral springs in the world in terms of depth, capacity and temperature, which is between 30 and 73 degrees Celsius.
Edited translation from Al-Masry Al-Youm
