The road to Universal Health Coverage in Egypt: New expectations and hopes
This article originally featured in International Health Policies, discusses Egypt’s healthcare system, the universal health insurance law (2017) that exhibited Egypt’s political will to work towards universal health coverage, and the implementation of the law in the...
Egypt: Increasing financing of the health system in the past 8 years
Egypt's comprehensive universal health insurance law (2018) has been accompanied by a number of decisive steps by the country's government to make it effective. It was followed by the launch of a package of health reforms to expedite the provision of service to the...
Egypt: Implementation of national health insurance to continue in spite of global economic challenges
Egypt's Finance Ministry has asserted that the country's new Universal Health Insurance System (UHIS) will be implemented across all governorates, in line with presidential directives, in spite of the global economic challenges. Finance Minister Mohamed Maait, also...
Health Equity in Egypt: Reflections in 2022
This commentary sheds the light on the current health equity landscape in Egypt. It addresses equity issues relating to affordability, access, availability, utilization of health services and implications on health outcomes. On the policy level, Egypt has...
Egypt’s public spending on health rose by 70% since 2018, minister says
Egypt’s volume of public spending on the health sector has increased by 70 percent said the minister of planning and economic development, compared to the previous three years amounting to 270 billion Egyptian pounds (14.6 billion USD). The Ministry of Health and...
Universal Health Insurance in Egypt: Informal Workers’ Perspective
Egypt is embarking on a new universal health insurance (UHI) system to cover all Egyptians by 2032, in line with the UHI law. When fully implemented, the system is expected to ensure quality health services and adequate levels of financial protection for all. UHI...
Additional EGP260 million allocated to healthcare in Egypt in FY2020/2021 due to COVID-19
Egypt approved raising allocations to the healthcare sector by EGP260 million (16.54 million USD) in current fiscal year 2020/2021 to increase hospitals' capacity of intensive care beds to 1,000 and introduce further 500 ventilators. There is a growth in public...
Over 5 million citizens registered for Egypt’s new Universal Health Insurance System
Over five million Egyptian citizens have been registered for the country's Universal Health Insurance System in the governorates of the first phase, the cabinet's Information and Decision Support Centre said Saturday. The figures announced are around 85 percent...
Egyptian government inches toward vaccine-for-fee model with private sector
As the government in Egypt continues to vaccinate its population against COVID-19, plans to allow private healthcare companies to sell vaccinations are underway. During a meeting of the House of Representatives Complaints and Suggestions Committee on Monday,...
Presenting documents on Egypt’s health system, social health protection laws and COVID 19 response
Two papers throw light on the provisions for strategic purchasing of health services in Egypt under the universal health insurance (UIH) law and highlight the requirement for more clarity on the subject for effective implementation (Egypt plans to progressively...
Egypt’s comprehensive health insurance law
The Health Insurance Law no. 2 of 2018 has now been approved by the Egyptian Parliament and comes to extend the health insurance system to all citizens and improve the health services from 12 July 2018. The new Law covers all citizens, whether they are public or...
Egypt’s health sector budget in 2021/2022 is 16.2% higher than year before
The health sector in 2021/2022 is expected to have a budget 16.27 percent higher than that of the year before, highlighting Egypt’s keenness on improving health conditions for patients and staff. In the new financial year, the budget allocated for health will be...
Egypt’s health sector races to scale up coronavirus readiness
Egypt has ramped up efforts to fight the coronavirus, ordering manufacturers to channel medical protective equipment to public hospitals and announcing 1 billion Egyptian pounds ($64 million) in extra funding for its health services. The country had allocated 125...
Egypt joins with international partners for $1bn health insurance projects
The Egyptian Ministry of Finance has launched cooperation projects worth almost $1 billion with international partners to boost financial and technical support for the country's comprehensive health insurance system. The partners include the World Bank, the...
Health system measures in Egypt – COVID-19 – June 2020
The health system measures put into place in Egypt to contain the spread of COVID-19 are: * The authorities have taken a host of precautionary measures to improve testing as well as to limit the community spread of the virus, including setting up testing centres,...