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This is Kenzie's Corner

A blog in love of Egypt, my second home, looking from an outsider eye how Egyptians can have a healthier, safer life. This is by no means to highlight the bad stuff but it is to highlight how can things change for the good of the people. This is based on my personal experience staying in Egypt every year for one month since I was 6 month old with my mom visiting her parents.

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Feminine products a luxury?

Living in the US as well as belonging to middle class family in Egypt, some things were hard for me to grasp. One day my mom was talking about a charity organization in Egypt called “Mersal”, it has this initiative that feminine products like pads are a necessity not a luxury. Frankly speaking I didn’t […]

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Die from cold Injection?

I am not fluent in reading Arabic but my mom got news early morning that one of her coworkers relative passed away. He was in his early twenties quite athletic and healthy. She got a message of her phone (screenshot shown) and she explained that the deceased went to the pharmacy complaining about cold symptoms […]

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Risky ride ?

Driving on the streets , it is not uncommon to see an overloaded truck and a guy on top of the heavy load. This guy is quite pro, he even talks on his cell phone. Not sure about why is this so much confidence on this ride. This is pretty high risk and the guy […]

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No Universal patient record

Whenever my grand father sees a doctor, my aunt would carry lot of papers, radiology report, prescription, etc . I always wonder what all of those papers. Last visit to the neurologist I went with my aunt and my grand father to listen in. My grand father is seeing 3 different doctors due to his […]

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Teenagers & Muscle building supplements

It was a normal Summer day which started in a good way till we get a phone call. A relative just 16 years old suddenly passed away. Last time we saw him was looked pretty healthy with an athletic body and never complained of any illness. After the storm passed, I heard from my cousins […]

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Blood is your responsibility :(

That was really shocking for me, friend of my mom was in the hospital and in need of blood. The norm is the hospital would provide blood but I found the whole family and friends rallying on Facebook and over the phone asking relatives and friends to go to the hospital and donate blood. This […]

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Public Health System

The Health system in Egypt is for most of the population is government based health care. This insurance system suffers underfunding, low quality care, lack of medical equipment, and qualified personnel. Some of hospitals away from city center in a really bad conditions in terms of building structural conditions , its cleanliness and even the […]

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Overuse of keratin hair treatment

The pretty type of women’s hair in Egypt is curly like me 😉 but most of the girls specially the teenagers don’t really embraces just a beautiful and unique hair type. They tend to seek Keratin treatment in such an alarming frequency. The short term effect of the treatment is straighter and smoother hair but […]

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Cairo isn’t wheelchair friendly

Cairo isn’t an accessible city, and its attractions aren’t very accessible either. Starting with public transportation, the buses aren’t wheelchair accessible but there are private cabs like London Cab is wheelchair friendly , however this comes with a cost. Streets aren’t build with wheelchair in mind. Most bridges have stairs not even electric escalators. To […]

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Is there a smog test for old cars?

The lifetime of cars in Cairo, Egypt can span generations. This is not a joke my grandparents still keep their 1970 Seat nd a Lada car, fortunately my grandparents don’t drive now, so we wont have to worry about smog problem for their almost half a century cars. The issue is many old cars in […]

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