Head of the Health Accreditation and Oversight Authority: 24,000 oversight visits to the comprehensive health insurance system
The head of the General Authority for Health Accreditation and Supervision, Ahmed Taha, confirmed that comprehensive health insurance is an ambitious system that aims to reform the Egyptian health system, so that it includes all Egyptians, including the incapable, for whom the state guarantees the provision of medical services and includes all medical services. And all sectors, pointing out that the system is based on health insurance for the Egyptian family..
He added, while commenting on the discussions of senators in today’s plenary session regarding the challenges facing the implementation of comprehensive health insurance, “This system ensured that medical services were covered by quality standards, separating the service provider from the service financier.
He stressed that the General Authority for Health Accreditation and Control issues quality standards consistent with international standards, explaining that standards have been provided for hospitals, primary care centers, laboratories, and radiology centers that have obtained accreditation consistent with international standards.
Taha stressed monitoring the implementation of the service to ensure sustainability, and said: “Monitoring visits are carried out in a large number during the 4 years since the implementation of the system. We have made 24 thousand supervisory visits. The Health Care Authority is complaining about the amount of supervisory visits,” adding, “ Visits at a rate of 100 monitoring visits per month, indicating that the visits include measuring the standards of medical service provision..
He explained that the 350 approved facilities include The facility includes 78 hospitals and 202 primary care units, and he said that the system is based on the fact that 75% of medical services can be provided in basic care units.
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