18 January 2024
During the regular meeting of the Board of Directors of the Egypt Healthcare Authority No. (69)

The Authority’s Board of Directors confirms the continued implementation of presidential mandates to provide the best health services to citizens, the continuation of providing presidential initiative services, and the launch of an additional package of initiatives to enhance the health of citizens in 6 governorates during the year 2024.

The Authority’s Board of Directors approves the technical and financial performance report for the first half of the fiscal year 2023/2024 and appreciates the efforts of the executive body and the Authority’s work brigade to provide more than 34.3 million medical services of international quality.

The Board of Directors of the Authority reviews the efforts of the Authority’s hospitals to participate in the state’s plan to treat Gaza’s wounded and appreciates the efforts of the medical teams that performed approximately 32% of the total surgical operations provided for the wounded Palestinians with a success rate of 100% and confirms the continued reception of advanced cases of the wounded in implementation of the presidential directives.

Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Authority: The increase in indicators of citizen frequency of the Authority’s services at a rate of one and a half million visits per month reflects the Authority’s success in restoring citizen confidence in government health services and confirms: The user satisfaction rate has exceeded 90%.

Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Authority: The increase in the cost of medical services by 51% over the first half of the previous fiscal year reflects the Authority’s interest in continuing to improve the health care system, keeping pace with the latest global developments, and maintaining the level of services provided to citizens in light of the wave of rising prices of health service inputs.

Chairman of the Authority’s Board of Directors: Implementing the clinical pharmacy system and the rational use of antibiotics succeeded in saving 22% of medicine disbursements during the reporting period compared to the previous year, and establishing units for revenue cycle management (RCM) in health facilities succeeded in increasing hospital revenues by rates exceeding 35%.

Chairman of the Authority’s Board of Directors: The volume of spending on medical services for beneficiaries of the comprehensive health insurance system during the first half of the fiscal year 2023/2024 is more than 5 billion pounds, financed from the Authority’s own resources and the state’s general budget.

Chairman of the Authority’s Board of Directors: We provided self-funded medical services amounting to nearly one billion pounds to beneficiaries, and we achieved revenues and self-resources of more than 2.9 billion pounds, an increase of 63% over the first half of the previous fiscal year.

The Authority’s Board of Directors praises the stability of financial performance and the growth of the Authority’s revenues from medical tourism and other sources of foreign exchange.. And the Chairman of the Authority’s Board of Directors: The increase in the average monthly electronic claims to 150% is an important indicator of the maturity of the process of separating financing from providing services and managing government resources in an economical manner.

The Authority’s Board of Directors approves the Authority’s draft budget for the next fiscal year 2024/2025 and the investment plan proposals for the projects.

The Authority’s Board of Directors agrees to increase the financial treatment of branch managers and hospital directors affiliated with the Authority in the governorates as a first stage to amend the wage regulations for employees of the Authority, its branches, and health facilities and link it to productivity and achieving medical and financial goals.

The Authority’s Board of Directors discusses the results of the Supreme Committee to maximize the Authority’s resources and revenues and approves work on several projects, the most important of which is training health service providers who are not employees of the Authority, medical insurance for specific groups in the Arab countries and the world, strategic cooperation with sister countries to transfer expertise and share it globally, opening registration for suppliers and exploiting unoccupied places as places. Rental for various service-related activities

The Authority’s Board of Directors congratulates Major General Dr. Bahaa El-Din Zidane for renewing confidence in him as Chairman of the Unified Purchasing Authority and extends thanks and appreciation to Dr. Tamer Essam, former head of the Egyptian Medicine Authority, for his national role that contributed to the institutional building of the Egyptian Medicine Authority. It congratulates Dr. Ali Al-Ghamrawi for his appointment as the new head of the Egyptian Medicine Authority and wishes him Completing the process of achievements and enhancing cooperation between the two bodies

---------------------------

The Board of Directors of the Public Health Care Authority, headed by Dr. Ahmed Al-Sabki, Chairman of the Authority’s Board of Directors and General Supervisor of the Comprehensive Health Insurance and Decent Life projects at the Ministry of Health and Population, affirmed the continued implementation of presidential mandates to provide the best health services to citizens, the continuation of providing presidential initiative services, and the launch of an additional package of initiatives to enhance Citizen health in 6 governorates: Implementing the comprehensive health insurance system “Port Said, Luxor, Ismailia, South Sinai, Aswan, Suez” during the year 2024.

This came during the regular meeting of the Board of Directors of the Public Health Care Authority No. (69), which is held monthly under the chairmanship of Dr. Ahmed Al-Sabki, Chairman of the Health Care Authority, to discuss the most important topics related to proposals for developing work and policies and setting future plans to ensure continuity of control and regulation of the provision of health care services to insurance beneficiaries. Comprehensive health care with professionalism and international quality.

The meeting reviewed the Authority’s semi-annual performance report on health services and the financial performance report for the first half of the fiscal year 2023/2024, where the Authority’s Board of Directors agreed to adopt the Authority’s technical and financial performance report for that period, appreciating the efforts of the Authority’s executive body and work brigade for the success of achieving Providing more than 34.3 million medical services with world-class quality.

Dr. Ahmed Al-Sabki pointed out that more than 14.7 million medical services have been provided through the authority’s family medicine centers and units to beneficiaries of comprehensive health insurance so far, in addition to performing 500,000 various operations and surgeries, including 110 advanced operations with a special skill or character using the latest technologies. Pointing out that the authority owns 311 health facilities in the aforementioned governorates, including 278 family medicine centers and units and 33 hospitals, noting the success of accrediting 174 of them so far, as well as the completion of 100% mechanization and digital transformation of services in family medicine centers and units and 80% in hospitals.