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Egypt, JICA discuss cooperation in comprehensive health insurance
JICAâs support to Egyptian insurance project will amount to $400m starting from 2023

Egypt includes 15 million citizens in health insurance system
This comes within the framework of President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisiâs directives to improve the quality of life for citizens, and improving their standard of living, as well as providing health services by including all groups of Egyptian society under the umbrella of the social and health insurance system, which aims to achieve Egyptâs Vision 2030.

Egypt aims to improve medical services through health insurance system: Madbouly
Developing Suez hospitals complex will cost EGP 2.4bn

Egypt should brace public-private partnership on comprehensive health insurance: Finance Minister
This is with a view to ensure the success of the comprehensive health insurance system, through the serious pursuit of contracting with major hospitals and private health and medical centres across Egypt. This will take place once these hospitals and centres are approved by the General Authority for Control and Accreditation.

Luxorâs comprehensive health insurance scheme gearing for 1 July launch
First phase covers Luxor, Ismailia, Aswan, Suez, and South Sinai governorates over next 2 years

Work underway in 5 governorates to apply comprehensive health insurance
Egyptâs comprehensive health insurance will cover whole country within 10 years: Maait

About 3 million citizens subscribed to Egyptâs comprehensive health insurance: Official
Osteoporosis diseases, some mental illnesses, and congenital disorders will be included in system

Government meets World Bank to discuss cooperation in Egyptâs new health insurance
The mission included Amr El-Shalakani, senior health specialist at the World Bank, and Regional Director of the World Bank office in Egypt, Yemen and Djibouti Marina Weiss.

Finance ministry provides EGP 6.4bn in urgent allocations for supply, railways, health insurance
The allocations also included EGP 220m for the NMA to meet its obligations towards workers in September.

Zayed decrees covering non-regular workers with health insurance
Around 264 labourers will enjoy health insurance, ministry says

Finance Ministry provides EGP 4.5bn urgent allocations for supply, railways, health insurance
$67.9m guarantee issued to purchase 295,000 tonnes of imported wheat

Implementation of comprehensive health insurance subject to formation of financial, monitoring, operational bodies: Health Ministry
First phase of health insurance will cost about EGP 9.3bn, will be firstly applied in Port Said, then in another Suez Canal governorate after six months

Finance Ministry provides EGP 4.6bn urgent allocations for supply, railways, health insurance
Minister of Finance Amr El-Garhy approved EGP 4.6bn in urgent allocations for May to the General Authority for Supply Commodities (GASC), Egyptian National Railways, the General Authority for Health Insurance, and the National Media Authority. The allocations included EGP 4bn for the GASC, which is the value of the financial support for the goods bought …

50.9% of Egyptians are health insurance subscribers, beneficiaries
The Central Agency for Public Mobilisation and Statistics (CAPMAS) announced in a press release on the occasion of the International Day of Families, observed annually on 15 May, that 50.9% of the Egyptian population are subscribers to or beneficiaries of health insurance. The CAPMAS also said that 10.3m families live in urban areas compared with …

Long-awaited health insurance system unsatisfactory for health providersÂ
Law meant to be implemented in 15 years in all governorates

Driving license fees raised to finance âhealth insuranceâÂ
Medical subscription fees for third child reduced by 0.5%

Parliament to discuss comprehensive health insurance bill next week
Insurance coverage cost will rise from EGP 1,300 in the first year of implementation to EGP 4,600 per year per capita

Government visits Paris to discuss social health insurance system: Ministry of Finance
System implementation to provide citizens with high quality health services, abiding by international standards

Parliament discusses imposing taxes to increase judicial, military health insurance
Increasing burdens on the lives of already weary citizens will lead to a âsweeping revolutionâ, says 6 April Movement figure

Health ministry finalises health insurance bill, sends it to parliament for ratification
The latest version of the bill included several modifications, but a number of articles in the bill were not amended

El Nadeem Centre seeks Doctors Syndicateâs support following closure attempt
The syndicate responded to a complaint from El Nadeem by calling on the ministry to abide by the law, amid ongoing confrontations

Doctors Syndicate recognises new health insurance bill amendments
The syndicate reiterated its call for further amendments to the bill ahead of the upcoming parliamentary reviewÂ

Doctors Syndicate demands further amendment of health insurance bill
Implementation of new health insurance system will soon come into effect, says health minister

Doctors Syndicate secretary-general demands previously allocated tax revenue for health insurance sector
Cigarette taxes were supposed to revamp health insurance ecosystem

No retreat on cigarettes tax, increases between 50 piastres and EGP 1.5: Cabinet
Prices now at EGP 23 for Dunhill, EGP 23 for Kent, EGP 15 for Rothmans and EGP 13 for Viceroy, says British American Tobacco Egypt official

Tobacco workers on strike
Eastern Company for Tobacco workers demand better wages, family health insurance and permanent contracts