{"id":987521609,"date":"2022-02-03T03:07:18","date_gmt":"2022-02-03T02:07:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/news\/over-5-million-citizens-registered-for-egypts-new-universal-health-insurance-system\/"},"modified":"2023-03-02T09:46:53","modified_gmt":"2023-03-02T08:46:53","slug":"over-5-million-citizens-registered-for-egypts-new-universal-health-insurance-system","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/news\/over-5-million-citizens-registered-for-egypts-new-universal-health-insurance-system\/","title":{"rendered":"Over 5 million citizens registered for Egypt&#8217;s new Universal Health Insurance System"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over <strong>five million Egyptian citizens<\/strong> have been registered for the country&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/projects.worldbank.org\/en\/projects-operations\/project-detail\/P172426\">Universal Health Insurance System<\/a>&nbsp; in the governorates of the first phase, the cabinet&#8217;s Information and Decision Support Centre said Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The figures announced are around <strong>85 percent of the target<\/strong> of the first phase, which covers 6 million citizens in six governorates, namely Port Said, Luxor, Ismailia, Aswan, Suez, and South Sinai.<\/p>\n<p>The total cost of the new scheme is expected to hit <strong>EGP 210 billion (13.38 billion USD)<\/strong> annually once the entire population, estimated in excess of 100 million citizens, registers in the new system.<\/p>\n<p>The <strong>state\u2019s public treasury<\/strong> bore one-quarter of the planned costs to finance the system, with two-quarters of the cost shouldered by subscriptions, and the last quarter provided through other sources of funding.<\/p>\n<p><em>To know more, read the full news article originally published in <a href=\"https:\/\/english.ahram.org.eg\/News\/446251.aspx\">Arham Online here.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Image credits: Unsplash<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Have anything to say about Egypt&#8217;s social health protection and universal health coverage? Please let us know in the comments section below.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over five million Egyptian citizens have been registered for the country&#8217;s Universal Health Insurance System&nbsp; in the governorates of the first phase, the cabinet&#8217;s Information and Decision Support Centre said Saturday. The figures announced are around 85 percent of the target of the first phase, which covers 6 million citizens in six governorates, namely Port&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":559,"featured_media":987528239,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[],"tags":[129,131],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/987521609"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/559"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=987521609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/987521609\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/987528239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=987521609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=987521609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=987521609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}