The General Directorate of Civil Defense - Authority - announced in a statement that it "provided 652 services and missions through its ambulance center located in the Bir al-Abed area during the month of April. These services ranged from transporting emergency cases, medical emergencies, deaths, accompanying activities, taking vital signs, treating cases on-site, lending medical equipment, responding to traffic accidents, handling emergency cases in the emergency room located in the center, in addition to responding to COVID-19 cases and monitoring home emergency intervention operations."