Hmmmm....my 75 year old friend got cured (in remission for 5 years) of Hep C that she got probably in a blood transfusion for one of her 2 heart surgeries years earlier.....Chinese medicine primarily....
” tens of thousands will die each year unless they receive a liver transplant. “
Not that many livers out there, compatible or not.
The only practical solution, other than letting nature take its course, is two fold.
First is some way to destroy the Hepatitis C virus in the body of a living person in such a way that it is fully eradicated. Then, a peculiar capacity of the liver is its ability to regenerate a partial liver into a complete organ. This process can be accelerated with a naturally occurring chemical called silymarin, which is the ultimate liver healer.
Importantly, a “generic” liver structure might be created, then populated with a donor’s own liver stem cells, effectively growing a portion of healthy liver in a lab, which could then be transplanted into their decayed but disease free liver, to replace it.
Individually this would be extraordinarily expensive, but done at a national level, and used in a “mass production” surgery (that was proven to be possible in the old Soviet Union), it could theoretically work.
However, given that this is Egypt, most likely they will just let the disease run its course, killing however many, and put their efforts into keeping the next generation from getting infected.