CBE Signs Cooperation Protocol with Medical Emergency Response Fund

The Central Bank of Egypt (CBE) signed a cooperation protocol with the Emergency Medical and Genetic Diseases Fund of the Ministry of Health and Population.

This comes to help alleviate the suffering of patients by conducting the required surgeries for people with critical conditions, who are not covered by health insurance, as well as providing appropriate financial support to cover the costs of the required health services, in all hospitals (government, private and private).

The signing ceremony was witnessed by Hassan Abdullah, Governor of the Central Bank of Egypt, and Khaled Abdel Ghaffar, Minister of Health, where the signing of the Central Bank, Ghada Tawfiq, the Governor's Advisor for Social Responsibility, and the Medical Emergency Response Fund and Rare Genetic Diseases, Dr. Ibrahim Abdel Ati, Executive Director of the Fund.

On this occasion, Hassan Abdullah stated that "the cooperation protocol comes within the framework of the Central Bank of Egypt's keenness to participate in all presidential initiatives, which aim to improve the lives of the Egyptian citizen and promote human development in various fields, as the banking sector devotes its efforts in the field of social responsibility to support priority sectors, foremost of which is the health sector, which contributes to providing medical care to citizens and easing the burdens on Egyptian families."

Under the protocol, the material support provided by the Central Bank and the banking sector as a whole will contribute to the implementation of medical interventions necessary for critical and accurate cases and the necessary surgeries for patients in the specialties of heart and bone and corneal transplantation.

It is worth mentioning that the cooperation protocol comes within the framework of the participation of the Central Bank of Egypt in cooperation with the banking sector in supporting and implementing many priority projects, as part of the “New Beginning for Human Building” initiative launched by the Ministerial Group for Human Development last September and lasts for 100 days.