2.16 million surgeries were performed by the Ministry of Health through the initiative to end waiting lists
The Ministry of Health and Population announced the completion of 2 million, 160,482 surgical operations, as part of President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi’s initiative, to end waiting lists and prevent the accumulation of new lists for critical surgical interventions included in the initiative. Since its launch in July 2018 until today.
Dr. Hossam Abdel Ghaffar, the official spokesman for the Ministry of Health and Population, explained that the Ministry received 179,994 calls from patients on waiting lists, with a completion rate of 98% via the hotline designated for the initiative. , indicating that the cases that were followed up From 7/1/2023 until this April reached 100 thousand and 425 cases.
Abdul Ghaffar said: The initiative includes surgeries (heart, bone, ophthalmia, tumors, cerebral catheters, heart catheterization, brain and nerve catheterization, kidney transplantation, liver transplantation, cochlear implantation), according to the directives of President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi, and patients are distributed centrally to the hospitals affiliated with the initiative, to ensure that they receive Medical service as quickly as possible.
He added that the services of the President of the Republic’s initiative to end waiting lists are completely free, and the patient does not bear any financial burdens, as the initiative is based on alleviating the suffering of those who are unable, and performing urgent and critical surgeries with the highest quality and in the fastest time. Possible.
He pointed out the Ministry’s interest in raising the level of performance in hospitals to provide the best medical services to patients, through continuous training of medical staff and providing hospitals with the modern supplies and devices necessary to perform surgical interventions, in addition to the continuous development of the mechanized system for working in the initiative to facilitate Follow up and extract data.
It is worth noting that the initiative has contributed since its launch to activating a unified electronic system, linking the bodies that issue treatment decisions, whether at the expense of the state or health insurance, based on the capacity of each hospital with the possibility of transferring cases. Among the sectors providing the service.
The Ministry of Health and Population calls on patients who need surgical interventions from the operations included in the initiative to register on the website dedicated to following up on cases of the initiative to eliminate waiting lists: pointing out that citizens’ inquiries and data are received via the hotline. 15300.
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