Over 15 Mln Egyptian People to Be Added to Health Insurance System in 2022: Minister

Nearly 15.3 million people will be added to the country’s health insurance system in 2022, according to Egypt’s Ministry of Health on Tuesday.

Acting Minister of Health, Khaled Abdel-Ghaffar, explained that new segments of the population are being brought under the health insurance umbrella in 2022.

The new segments will include farmers, seasonal workers, taxi drivers, fishermen, quarry, construction, transport and shipping workers, Abdel-Ghaffar added.

He stated that the number of people covered by the insurance system in March reached 69.7 million, representing 69 percent of Egypt’s population.

The acting minister added that during the first quarter of 2022, 481,525 surgical operations were conducted in health insurance hospitals at a cost of more than three billion Egyptian pounds.

Minister Abdel-Ghaffar said new medical equipment, including open heart operations and CT scan machines, had been delivered to a number of hospitals nationwide during the past period under the umbrella of the health insurance system.