Friday 27/June/2025 – 06:47 PM
The Comprehensive Health Insurance Authority participated in the ministerial session of the first African Conference for Investment in Health Care, which was organized by the Egyptian Society for Health Care supply chains, the community arm of the unified purchase authority, as part of the activities of the fourth edition of the African Medical Exhibition and Conference 2025 Africa Health Excon.
Providing health coverage for more than 5 million citizens, with a coverage, exceeding 83%
Dr. Ihab Abu Aish, Vice -Chairman of the Comprehensive Health Insurance Authority, stressed that the comprehensive health insurance system has so far succeeded in providing health coverage for more than 5 million citizens, with a coverage rate exceeding 83% of the population of the covered governorates, including more than 20% of those who are unable to bear the public treasury for all the obligations due.
Dr. Ihab Abu Aish reviewed a set of strategic axes adopted by the authority to achieve its goals, which include:
- Firstly: Expedite the generalization of the system to all citizens, while giving special priority to the most needy and most needy groups.
- secondly: Improving the efficiency of resource use by rationalizing threshing and fighting abuse, and relying on health technology assessment sciences, effective protocols and health economics.
- Third: Promoting governance, control and quality guarantee, by developing policies and internal evaluation mechanisms, and cooperation with international partners such as the Japanese Agency for International Cooperation JICA; To adopt administrative policies that focus on the consent of the beneficiaries.
- Fourth: Investing in digital transformation and information technology to facilitate the provision of services, securing health data, and achieving integration between various service providers from all sectors.
- Fifth: Enhancing transparency and competitiveness in the health care market, through a fair pricing, providing information with transparency, and encouraging positive competition, noting that the authority launched a campaign of your right to choose, and announce investment opportunities for initial care for the private sector; To encourage joining the system.
Regarding the guarantee of financial sustainability, Abu Aish explained that the authority adopts several policies, the most important of which are: the optimal investment of surpluses through the establishment of an investment portfolio in the authority as a way to enhance financial stability and achieve sustainability in the long term and ensure continuity for the coming stages, as well as continuous updating of packages of services and medicines, and relying on effective evaluation tools in health spending.
In this context, he indicated that the authority has issued five services for services so far, covering 3467 services, in addition to a medicinal list that includes 4,625 items, and work is underway to issue a sixth pricing regulation soon.
He also stressed the importance of empowering the private sector, as the authority launched a number of cooperative initiatives, most notably the signing of protocols with the room of health care providers in the Federation of Industries, the National Bank of Egypt and the Medical Syndicate to provide low -cost financing for service providers.
He pointed out that the rate of contracting with the private sector has so far reached 29% of the total service providers in the system, explaining that the conference represents an important opportunity to build effective partnerships, exchange experiences, and accelerate the pace of health transformation in Africa, calling for an investment of this momentum to formulate a more just and sustainable healthy future for the peoples of the continent.
