Comprehensive health insurance will be provided for all Egyptians in 10 years.

• Government is racing against time to offer high quality of "comprehensive health care" for all Egyptians
• "Citizens have to gain fruits of development…Health comes first", President El-Sisi always stresses.
• Corona crisis reflects the importance of proactive presidential package to reform health sector
• We are in Luxor after a successful experience in Port Said…highest cost for surgery is EGP 300.
• Government affords to pay for patients who are incapable.. Financial burden for 2300 remedial and health services till now
• Automating services of "comprehensive health insurance" to boost governance and guarantee quality.
• Hosam Sadek, executive director of comprehensive health insurance: 59 health centers ...7 hospitals to offer medical services for beneficiaries in Luxor.
• 63% out of Luxor inhabitants have registered their data to join the new system.

 

Luxor governor:

• "Comprehensive health insurance" spares citizens efforts for treatment rather than travelling to Cairo.

Dr. Mohamed Maait, Minister of Finance, Head of the comprehensive health insurance authority in Luxor, assured that Egypt – guided by its wise political leadership - witnesses unprecedented development movement in various fields.  Such movement helps in changing entire life for Egyptians as all national projects integrate to improve their livelihood, and upgrade offered services giving priority to health and education.  Dr. Maait noted that the national project of applying comprehensive health insurance system is considered the main element to reform health sector in Egypt.

During his field tour to follow up current preparations to start applying comprehensive health insurance in Luxor, where he visited Sheefa'a Alorman Hospital and Sheikh Moussa medical care unit, the minister was accompanied by counselor Moustafa Alham - Luxor governor, Mohamed Abdelkader Khairy -deputy governor and Hosam Sadek - Executive director of comprehensive health insurance. 

During such visit, Dr. Maait said that “we are racing against time to implement the President’s mandate of having a comprehensive health care system that covers all citizens in 10 years instead of 15”.  The minister noted that President Abdelfattah Elsisi always says that:" a citizen has to feel the impact of development...but health comes first".

 Moreover, Corona crisis reflected the importance of a proactive presidential package initiated by the president to reform health sector.  Such package includes launching of a comprehensive health care system along with a number of presidential initiatives such as: "100 million health care for early detection of virus C and non-communicable diseases ", beside the elimination of waiting lists for surgery-performing, given its increasing importance after the world pandemic spread as it helped in protecting patients of chronic diseases from Corona Virus. 

Minister stated that the comprehensive health insurance project is considered the largest and real guarantee to provide a comprehensive health care for all citizens.  He also noted that there is parallel work in the other first phase governorates “Luxor, Ismailia, Aswan, Suez and south of Sinia” to apply comprehensive health insurance system in the current fiscal year and in the upcoming one.

"We came here in Luxor to apply comprehensive health insurance system, after the successful experience in Port Said", the minister added.  A lot of great surgical operations have been done for beneficiaries without paying more than EGP 300,  as the State pays for those who are incapable and sustains financial burden for 2300 remedial and health services till now.

The automation of the comprehensive health insurance system helps in enhancing governance and guarantees high service quality. Procedures for the new project are carried out in planned steps that ensure having a comprehensive insurance coverage for all Luxor inhabitants. The new insurance system falls within the presidential initiative “Decent Life” as it offers comprehensive medical care with the highest medical quality standards for all citizens everywhere under social justice principle, remarked the minister.

Counselor Moustafa Alham, indicated that the comprehensive health insurance system will help in alleviating financial and psychological burdens on Luxor patients, and spare them the effort of travelling to Cairo for treatment, noting that the new system covers all family members and all diseases.

 

On his part, Mr. Hosam Sadek stated that around 2300 medical service will be offered to beneficiaries under the new insurance system through 7 hospitals, 59 medical care units, with the best quality and assurance international standards. 63% of Luxor inhabitants registered their contacts to join the comprehensive insurance system.

 

The government contracted with Sheefa'a Alorman Hospital, authorized by The General Authority for Healthcare Accreditation and Regulation, to offer medical services to beneficiaries at the comprehensive health insurance system. He also welcomed the joining of any medical institutions from the private and non-governmental sectors to the new system. This conforms with the new system concept that allows citizens to choose treatment in any public or private authorized medical institutions, highlighted Mr. Sadek.