Online, people are mocking the Egyptian army after it offered to supply millions of packages of infant milk.
When dozens of Egyptian families protested the shortage of subsidized infant formula in Cairo on Thursday, the country's health minister announced a solution: the army would supply 30 million packages of infant milk.
Egyptian mothers protested demanding infant milk for their children. "We aren't asking for food or fruits, we are asking for milk for our babies, or our babies will die," one of them said.
The controversy escalated after a copy of an open letter sent by the Egyptian Pharmaceutical Trading Company, a government entity that is responsible for importing and distributing infant milk, to President Abdel Fatah el-Sisi was posted on Facebook. In the letter, the company asked Sisi to help repeal the new rule that said a "sovereign entity" (which is often a term used for the country's intelligence agency) was taking over the importing of infant formula — and distributing it through a private company.
"Yes, there is corruption at our company, and because of that corruption a lot of the infant formula went to the candy factories," a manager at the Egyptian Pharmaceutical Trading Company who asked to remain anonymous because he feared he would lose his job, told BuzzFeed News. "The army said it would solve the problem by taking over importing and distributing of the milk."
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