{"id":987525718,"date":"2022-07-06T03:50:42","date_gmt":"2022-07-06T02:50:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/news\/egypts-public-spending-on-health-rose-by-70-since-2018-minister-says\/"},"modified":"2023-03-02T09:28:16","modified_gmt":"2023-03-02T08:28:16","slug":"egypts-public-spending-on-health-rose-by-70-since-2018-minister-says","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/news\/egypts-public-spending-on-health-rose-by-70-since-2018-minister-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Egypt\u2019s public spending on health rose by 70% since 2018, minister says\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Egypt\u2019s volume of <strong>public spending<\/strong> on the health sector has increased by <strong>70 percent <\/strong>said the minister of planning and economic development, compared to the previous three years amounting to&nbsp;270 billion Egyptian pounds (14.6 billion USD). The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.egypttoday.com\/Article\/1\/104982\/Health-sector-budget-in-2021-2022-is-16-2-higher\">Ministry of Health and Population (MoHP) budget<\/a> generally ranges from 3.3 to 4.0% of the annual government budget&nbsp;and reached 15% of health financing in Egypt.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The increased budget has many implications for <strong>Universal Health Insurance<\/strong> introduced in 2019 that is still in the implementation stage.&nbsp;Apart from funds that MoHP directly collects from co-payments and user fees, donors are funded via grants and loans for <a href=\"https:\/\/dhsprogram.com\/pubs\/pdf\/SPA5\/02chapter02.pdf\">vertical programs<\/a>. All uninsured citizens are eligible to use MoHP curative services.&nbsp;They can also benefit from the Program for Treatment at the Expense of the State.<\/p>\n<p>However, the <strong>primary healthcare financing source remains out of pocket expenditure<\/strong>, representing more than 60% of total health expenditure (THE). This is followed by&nbsp;government spending through the Ministry of Finance (MoF) which is around 37% of THE. MoF is the primary funding source for the MoHP. It funds nearly one-third of the total health spending in Egypt,&nbsp;It finances 93% of the MoHP activities and 72% of the Ministry of Higher Education (MoHE) healthcare activities<sup>1<\/sup>, another important healthcare service provider in the country.<\/p>\n<p><sup>1. Fasseeh, A., ElEzbawy, B., Adly, W.&nbsp;<em>et al.<\/em>&nbsp;Healthcare financing in Egypt: a systematic literature review..&nbsp;<em>J. Egypt. Public. Health. Assoc.<\/em>&nbsp;<strong>97,&nbsp;<\/strong>1 (2022).<\/sup><\/p>\n<p><em>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.arabnews.com\/node\/2072561\/business-economy\">Arab News<\/a><\/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<p><em><sup>Image credits: The Egypt Daily<\/sup><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Egypt\u2019s 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&nbsp;270 billion Egyptian pounds (14.6 billion USD). The Ministry of Health and Population (MoHP) budget generally ranges from 3.3 to 4.0% of the annual government budget&nbsp;and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":559,"featured_media":987527188,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[],"tags":[131],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/987525718"}],"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=987525718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/987525718\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/987527188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=987525718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=987525718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=987525718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}