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Who Benefit from the State Provided Health Insurance?

Publish Date: 05 Apr 2022

Finance Today

Who Benefit from the State Provided Health Insurance?

Soon an official announcement will be made regarding the registration system

The government announced that a large segment of the population will be included in the new Health Insurance System. According to Dr. Khaled Abdel Ghaffar, Minister of Higher Education & Scientific Research and acting Minister of Health & Population that 15,280,000 citizens have already been included under the Health Insurance System in 2022.

 

Who will benefit from the new system?

 

The Ministry of Health and Population’s official spokesperson confirmed that the categories to benefit from the Health Insurance System in 2022are as follows:

Farmers/agricultural workers

Business owners

Taxi drivers

Irregular labor: fishermen, miners, quarry workers, laborers in the construction, transport, and freight sectors

Members of trade unions

 

More details about the new health insurance system are expected to be released in the coming few weeks.

 

How many people are expected to benefit from the new system?

 

By the end of last March beneficiaries of the health insurance system reached an astounding 69,669,398 citizens, almost 69% of the Egyptian population.

During the first quarter of 2022 a record 481,525 surgeries were performed at both public and contracted private hospitals at a cost of 3 billion 993 million EGP as part of the “Waiting List” initiative.

 

Raising the quality of health services

 

Dr. Khaled Abdel Ghaffar affirmed that the government is always keen to increase the quality of health services for its citizens by investing the following:

 

  • Upgrading and creating new medical departments in the hospitals under the supervision of the General Authority for Health Insurance.
  • Supplying the public hospitals with the latest medical equipment and devices. 
  • Having 69% of the population under the new health insurance system in 2022.

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