Egypt will also seek to persuade Iran to drop or reduce its support for Hamas and Islamic Jihad, the two main Palestinian militant groups in the Gaza Strip, which borders Egypt, according to officials.

There are also reports that a memorandum of understanding will be signed soon between Israel and Sri Lanka, which will allow an aircraft belonging to Israel’s Arkia airline to start scheduled flights to Sri Lanka from October.

Gynecology, internal medicine, ophthalmology, medical biochemistry, general surgery, dentistry, orthopedics and traumatology, infectious diseases and ENT are the most preferred clinical specialties by international patients coming for health tourism.