The new comprehensive health insurance system revealed that contributions are not obtained from beneficiaries except in Port Said Governorate only, while the other 5 governorates in which registration is made, such as Luxor, Aswan, Suez, Ismailia and South Sinai, do not receive any funds from them, whether they are contributions or contributions. .
The new comprehensive health insurance system said, that with the implementation and trial or actual operation of the system, the collection of contributions from citizens will be initiated, either from the source or through direct interaction with the citizen.
The Minister of Health and Population has announced the registration of more than 2 million citizens in the comprehensive health insurance system in the governorates of the first stage and includes Port Said, Ismailia, Suez, South Sinai, Luxor and Aswan, since the system was launched in July 2019 in Port Said Governorate, and in the first of October From the same year in the rest of the governorates of the first stage.
Dr. Khaled Mujahid, Advisor to the Minister of Health and Population for Media Affairs and the official spokesperson of the ministry, said that the number of those joining the system is constantly increasing, as the number of registered in the Ismailia Governorate reached 525,466 citizens, and Suez Governorate 129,114 citizens, adding that Luxor Governorate has reached the number of citizens in the system to 477,778 citizens , Aswan Governorate has 300,338 citizens, while South Sinai Governorate has 34,712 citizens.
For his part, Dr. Ahmed Al-Subki, Assistant Minister for Supervision and Follow-up Affairs and Director of the Comprehensive Health Insurance Project, stated that the number of those joining in Port Said Governorate reached 548616 citizens, noting that more than 2 million, 16 thousand and 24 family files have been opened in the six first-stage governorates.
Al-Sobky stressed that comprehensive health insurance is a national project that unites all efforts and sectors of the state to ensure its success, and achieve social and health safety for the Egyptian citizen, in order to achieve President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi’s strategy to build the Egyptian person and Egypt’s Vision 2030, and he continued that the Ministry of Health and Population is keen to reach out to all citizens to educate them and encourage them in the system To register and open the family file, through multiple awareness initiatives that are appropriate to the demographic and geographical nature of each governorate.
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