Chairman of Egypt Healthcare Authority: Investing in health care is a strategic investment that promotes economies and productivity in a vital way. He emphasizes: the health sector is characterized by a variety of investments, the most important of which is health-care technology.
Chairman of Egypt Healthcare Authority: His Excellency President Abd-elfattah Al-Sisi launched the Universal Health Insurance Scheme to achieve universal health coverage for all Egyptians in a framework of justice and equality. He affirms: he has become a model for the Arab States and the world.
Chairman of Egypt Healthcare Authority: The investment climate in Egypt's health sector is fully enhanced. It confirms: a clear road map for - "Development of health-care services," "Health sector governance," "Flexible pricing" and "financial billing to cover the cost of health services for citizens"
Head of Egypt Healthcare Authority: Universal Health Insurance is one of the gold sectors for investment in health care over the next period
President of Egypt Healthcare Authority: The success of the health care sector in any State is based on partnership between governmental, private and private sectors. Confirms: unprecedented political support for partnership across sectors to support health-care development and attract investment
President of Egypt Healthcare Authority: Engaging government actors, the private sector and the private sector in the delivery of health services is the successful and single model for ensuring universal quality health-care services that are resilient to any crisis, emergency or health challenges
Chairman of Egypt Healthcare Authority: Arab States pursue a single philosophy in promoting private sector participation in the development of the health care sector. Egypt affirms at the heart of these countries, which offer promising investment opportunities, substantial facilities and investment incentives in this area.
Chairman of Egypt Healthcare Authority: Health and Technology Sectors Most Exploited in the Corona Pandemic, with the political leadership interest in placing them on top of the priorities of States
Chairman of Egypt Healthcare Authority: Arab States are able to invest in health care. It confirms: Egypt offers secure and successful investment models and a competitive advantage for the health care needs of 2.5 million citizens annually.
Chairman of Egypt Healthcare Authority: Arab Forum for the exchange of experiences, sharing of successful experiences, stories and innovative solutions for moving towards more sustainable health care. Promoting investments in the health-care sector
Chairman of Egypt Healthcare Authority: Congratulates the Arab Hospital Federation on the success of the annual Arab Forum. It expresses its pride in bearing Egypt's name, "The Goals of Egypt _AHDAF EGYPT," and its establishment on its soil of the massive transformation of the Egyptian health-care system and its efforts to achieve sustainable health development 2030.
Dr. Ahmed El-Sobky, President of Egypt Healthcare Authority, Assistant Minister of Health and Population, General Supervisor of the Universal Health Insurance Project, said that investment in health care was strategic, noting that worldwide strategic investments in health care not only provided better health and improved individual well-being, but also promoted economies, created jobs and enhanced productivity, i.e. investment in health care was a vital economic and community incentive.
Dr. Ahmed El-Sobky added that the importance of investing in the health care sector and health systems and developing and strengthening its own infrastructure lies in its ability to provide the best health service and care to citizens. In addition, it has been able to deal with various health crises and pandemics. This has been demonstrated by the Egyptian State ability to deal with the Korean HIV pandemic and to prevent, confront and withstand many of them. The Egyptian health system has not only provided medical equipment, hospitals or kits, but has also included precautionary measures, protocols and the principles and standards applied to deal with the pandemic. This has demonstrated Egypt strong, effective, coherent and flexible health care system.
This was the result of the participation of Dr. Ahmed El-Sobky, as a speaker at the opening meeting of the Arab annual Forum for Health Care Development, "The aims of Egypt _ AHDAF EGYPT" (the objectives of Egypt - AHDAF EGYPT) "2023, organized by the Arab Hospitals Union on Egypt's soil this January under the theme "Investing in Health Care for a Sustainable Future," in the presence of Arab Ministers of Health, heads of health bodies, Arab health organizations and associations, policy and decision makers, executive leaders and managers, health-care providers, health-care specialists, health-care technology developers, health-care vision holders and creators, health-care universities, teachers, pharmaceutical companies and medical equipment; with the aim of promoting investment opportunities in health care, consolidating efforts to learn and share experiences and knowledge, promoting partnership opportunities between the governmental and private sectors to support and develop the health-care sector, and preparing for the future.
At the opening meeting, Dr. Ahmed El-Sobky began by thanking and appreciating the Arab Hospitals Union and the leadership of the Federation for their efforts and their active role in promoting the health-care sectors of the Arab nation. He also congratulated them on the great success of the annual Arab Forum for the Development of Health Care, 2023, entitled "Egypt's objectives _ AHDAFEGYPT," and wished all participants active and effective participation in the Conference.
Dr. Ahmed El-Sobky stressed that investment in the health-care sector was different from other economic sectors in any country in the world, noting that the health sector was characterized by the diversity of its investments in health services, health insurance or other nutritional inputs to the industry, not limited to the manufacture of medical supplies and supplies, medicines, most notably health-care technology, and that the Arab Hospital Federation had chosen Egypt to hold the Forum in its third and current version on its territory because of the dramatic and remarkable shift in the Egyptian health-care system, driven by the implementation of comprehensive and sustainable health-care coverage by 2030, and noting the importance of having a mechanism to document the successes of health experiments in the Arab States in order to make them more widely available.
He stressed that Egypt investment climate was extremely conducive to success, a clear road map for the development of health-care services, the governance of the health-care sector, flexible pricing of services and a financial requirement to cover the cost of health services for citizens, which would allow for the capacity to build health facilities to provide high-quality medical services, all of which would guarantee strong and secure investment opportunities for any investor on Egyptian soil.
Egypt pioneering experience in the implementation of the universal health insurance system, which began under His Excellency President Abdullah al-Sisi in 2019, had achieved universal health coverage for all beneficiaries in a framework of justice and equality. The Universal Health Insurance provided promising investment opportunities in the field of health care in Egypt and worked hard to realize the dream of universal health coverage for all Egyptians and to achieve the goals of sustainable health development in accordance with Egypt Vision 2030, despite the economic challenges faced by all the countries of the world.
He drew attention to the governance of the health-care sector through the Egyptian Universal Health Insurance system through the three independent bodies, the public bodies "for health care, comprehensive health insurance, accreditation and health control" in order to ensure the independence and separation of service delivery from funding for quality control of service and patient safety. He drew attention to the continuing role of the Ministry of Health and Population in policy-making and the organization and governance of the health sector, as well as the flexible pricing of medical services.
He noted the interest of the Egyptian political leadership, His Excellency President Abd-elfattah Al-Sisi, in expanding the partnership between the governmental and private sectors, noting the prominent presence of the Arab Hospital Federation at the Egyptian Economic Conference, and the President focus on the fact that the Egyptian State promotes and promotes investment in the health sector and puts it as one of the gold sectors for investment in the coming period.
Dr. Ahmed El-Sobky stressed that the success of any State in the health-care sector in the world was based on partnership between all governmental, private and private sectors. There was no single sector capable of success but not the other. The health systems of the countries of England, France, Germany and Japan had been successful in providing health services to all sectors. He therefore noted the importance of involving government actors, the private sector and the private sector in the delivery of health services in Egypt. He emphasized that this was the only successful model for providing health services of global quality and the ability to withstand any crisis, emergency or health challenges.
The Arab States were pursuing a single philosophy in strengthening the private sector and in promoting its participation in all efforts to develop the health-care sector and its quality. Egypt was pursuing that philosophy and policy by providing the private sector with a great opportunity to cooperate with the Egyptian State in the health-care sector and to provide promising investment opportunities that were relevant and nutritious in that area. Egypt had also been given considerable facilities and high investment incentives to encourage investors and attract investment in this safe industry and its outstanding return, particularly with the large size of the Egyptian market and population in the Egyptian State, which offered a competitive advantage, namely the need to provide health services to 2.5 million citizens annually.
Investment in the health-care sector had become attractive in most Arab countries in view of the significant development in the governance of health sectors at the level of the Arab nation. The most beneficial sectors of the Corona pandemic had been the health and technological sectors. Those sectors had received the attention of the political leaders of all the countries of the world in the health sector and placed health at the top of the priorities in Egypt and all Arab States. They had become an opportunity for all investors to invest in that sector and the promising industry, on which States could rely, as was the case in East Asia, India and some European countries. The Arab States were able to invest in that industry.
The annual Arab Forum for the Development of Health Care was a genuine forum for networking among Arab States, an opportunity to share experiences and success stories in that area, obtain world views on thinking about health care management, access best practices and innovative solutions to better health care outcomes, and open dialogue to discuss and seize opportunities to promote investments in the Arab health-care sector and move towards more sustainable health care.
Dr. Ahmed El-Sobky expressed his pride in choosing the Arab Hospital Federation Egypt to hold this forum in its third edition in 2023, after having succeeded in the past two years in Kuwait and the Sultanate of Oman, because of the tremendous and extraordinary transformation of the Egyptian health-care system, prompted by the implementation of comprehensive health-care coverage by 2030. He noted that this reflected the growing confidence of Arab society that Egypt was on the right track in its competition for Arab and global medical centers. He pointed out the importance of having a mechanism for documenting successes in the Arab countries health experiments in order to make them more widely available and of launching an Arab strategy for the development of the Arab health sector, the management of crises and health emergencies and the implementation of a special program to transfer the experience of implementing Universal Health Insurance in Egypt to Arab hospitals.
It should be noted that in its 2023 edition, the Arab Health Development Forum supports Arab ministries and bodies, the World Health Organization, the Egyptian health-care authorities, the Hamad Medical Foundation, the Abu Dhabi Health Service, the Chamber of Private Sector Health Care Providers, the Egyptian Federation of Industries, and several Arab health-care providers, professional organizations and trade unions.
The Forum includes high-level sessions and interactive panel discussions for all decision makers and policy makers in the health-care sectors of the Arab States, stakeholders, managers, health-care workforce, professionals and companies that focus health-care investments from different perspectives, as well as an exhibition of the latest health-care products, techniques and services, as well as an award ceremony to honor institutions, leaders and personalities and contribute to health care.
