The Minister of Health and the Governor of the Central Bank witness the signing of a cooperation protocol to eliminate waiting lists
Dr. Khaled Abdel Ghaffar, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Health and Population, and Hassan Abdullah, Governor of the Central Bank of Egypt, witnessed the signing of a cooperation protocol between the Medical Emergency Response Fund and Genetic Diseases and the Central Bank, with the aim of alleviating the suffering of patients and ending waiting lists among patients. Various medical interventions, and providing medical service of the highest quality and efficiency.
The signing of the protocol comes within the activities of the presidential initiative “A New Beginning for Human Building.” Within the framework of social responsibility and sustainable development, the Central Bank and the banking sector in the field, to support priority sectors, especially the health sector, by providing high-quality medical services to all patients, and in implementation of the directives of President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi, to end waiting lists, and alleviate any suffering of citizens, especially non-citizens. able, and to perform urgent and critical surgeries, with the highest quality and as quickly as possible, out of the Egyptian state’s keenness to provide a decent life for the citizen.
The protocol aims to alleviate the suffering of patients by conducting interventions. Surgical procedures required for critically ill patients who are not subject to health insurance, as well as providing appropriate financial support to cover the costs of required health services, in all government, private and private hospitals without the citizen bearing any financial burden.
The protocol will contribute, through the financial support provided by the Central Bank and the banking sector, to implementing the necessary medical interventions for critical and delicate cases and performing the necessary surgeries for patients in the specializations of heart, bone, and corneal transplantation. Cooperation between the Ministry of Health and Population and the Central Bank has also contributed to reducing waiting hours for care beds. Intensive care, and incubators, reaching two hours for nurseries and less than 24 hours for intensive care. And 972 operations were performed during the months (July, August, September, and until the end of last October) at a cost amounting to 380 million pounds, and 106 corneal transplant operations were performed at a cost amounting to 52 thousand pounds, in addition to 1,000 artificial joint installation operations at a cost amounting to 50 million pounds. Out of 3,000 joints included in the protocol.
The protocol was signed by Dr. Ibrahim Abdel-Ati, Executive Director of the Fund for Combating Medical Emergencies and Genetic Diseases, and Ghada Tawfiq, Advisor to the Governor of the Central Bank. For social responsibility.
