The Media Center for the Presidency of the Council of Ministers announced in a statement released today, Wednesday, the news that was circulated on social media, which included a shortage of medicines for chronic diseases in the hospitals of the comprehensive health insurance system.
The government denies there is a shortage of medicines for chronic diseases with universal health insurance:
As it was contacted with the Egyptian Medicines Authority after the spread of news indicating that there was a shortage of drugs for chronic diseases in the hospitals of the comprehensive health insurance system, which in turn denied that news and stressed the availability of all medicines.
Which also guarantees chronic diseases in all hospitals, whether governmental or health insurance. Its strategic stock is completely safe and reassuring, as coordination is made with the Unified Purchase Authority in order to provide any shortages of medicines or medical supplies.
The Egyptian Medicines Authority indicated that it is intensifying monitoring campaigns on all drug dispensing and selling outlets in order to ensure the state’s keenness to secure the citizens’ needs of medicines, and work is being done at the present time through a strategy of anticipating events and early predicting drug shortages.
This is done by monitoring the stock of important and vital medicines such as insulin, pressure, emergency care, diabetes, tumors, radiology dyes, Parkinson’s, blood derivatives, immunology and intravenous solutions.
As well as anesthetics and medicines for treating symptoms of the emerging corona virus, Covid 19, and the goal is to cover the needs of the local market as well as government hospitals, through coordination with the Unified Procurement Authority.
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