Egyptian health ministers: a successful experiment "100 million healthy people" can be guided

The Egyptian Minister of Health and Population, Dr. Hala Zayed, presided on Thursday the Executive Council of the Council of Arab Ministers of Health at its headquarters in Cairo.

The Arab ministers began with a moment of mourning in memory of the victims of the train accident that occurred in Egypt yesterday morning, before sending a message of condolence to President Abdel Fattah al- Sisi, who offered his condolences to the Egyptian Minister of Health. And thanked them for their condolences.

In her speech, the Minister stated that Egypt was very keen on the participation of Arab health ministers in the experiences of successful Arab countries, discussing common challenges in the health sector and how to overcome them. , while renewing Arab ministers' commitment to the Arab peoples to provide appropriate health care.

The minister pointed out that Arab countries were seeking to consolidate health legislation and to establish comprehensive health coverage for all citizens with the desired level of care, stressing that Egypt had adopted a system of health care. 39, comprehensive health insurance and that a law had been promulgated in this regard during the past year, in accordance with the standards in force. Government officials, separation of service delivery authorities, funding and control.

She stressed that the meeting of "Arab Ministers" was an opportunity to spread the principle of universal health coverage by offering a mandatory system applying to all members of society and a cooperative covering all members of the family and based on solidarity between the rich and the poor, healthy and suffering people. For "comprehensive health insurance" in Egypt.

The Minister of Health pointed out that the structure of diseases in the Arab countries was changing: noncommunicable diseases such as diabetes, obesity and high blood pressure remained one of the main diseases leading to high mortality rates in recent years, responsible for more than 80% of deaths and complications. Which have spread in various age groups to young people, in addition to increasing the volume of health expenses to increase the number of injured and their low age.

She confirmed that Egypt was conducting a comprehensive medical investigation on the C virus, measuring blood sugar, measuring blood pressure and body mass index (BMI). Assessment and treatment are provided free of charge and to all Egyptian citizens to the wounded. The success of the campaign is based on the concerted efforts of all stakeholders: the drug manufacturing plants have built the drug efficiently and effectively, and provide the necessary treatment doses to the injured until they have been healed. "

Dr. Hala Zayed said that the delicate historical situation in the Arab world obliges us all to preserve not only the interests of our countries, but also the cohesion of our societies, the unity of our peoples and the right of our peoples to aspire to health coverage.

She emphasized the importance of promoting dialogue and coordination among Arab health ministers collectively, in order to strengthen existing bilateral communication channels in the hope of achieving a common vision of coverage. health of our peoples and how to meet the growing challenges facing our countries and region. It is difficult to achieve these challenges with individual efforts.

"Every country in our region has something to offer, not just material support, it can be technological innovation or human resources, our country has a lot to share with each other and with the world for health for all. "

"While we all recognize that there are no magic solutions to overcome these challenges, we need to look at some of the contours as the key to the solution," she said.

At the end of the meeting, the Council adopted the experience of Egypt regarding the initiative of President Abdelfattah Al-Sisi, "100 million people in good health," as successful experience to guide Arab countries.

The Minister of Health also instructed the Technical Secretariat of the Council of Arab Ministers of Health to monitor the implementation of PCR analysis to determine the presence of HIV in the bodies of those who go to work in the Gulf countries, rather than analyzing the antibodies, thus paving the way for people recovering from the virus to get to work. There, and increase the remittances of Egyptians abroad.