Publish Date: 05 Apr 2022 Finance Today
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.
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.
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.
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: