conference of the Federation of Arab Hospitals and stresses the importance of investment in the medical field
The Minister of Health participates in the annual conference for the development of health care «Goals of Egypt» to exchange visions to strengthen health systems and support digital transformation
The Federation of Arab Hospitals praises Egypt''s efforts in developing the health sector, calling on all Arab countries to invest in medical tourism
Dr. Khaled Abdel Ghaffar, Minister of Health and Population, confirmed that the Egyptian state was able to achieve great and prominent success in the digital transformation file and the governance of health care services, which achieves justice in providing the best medical service to citizens, and achieving comprehensive health coverage for all segments of society, explaining that digital transformation processes It is the main force for any society seeking to develop its health services.
The Minister of Health and Population''s speech came today, Wednesday, during his participation in the annual conference for the development of health care (Egypt''s goals) 2023 under the slogan "Investing in health care for a sustainable future", and in the presence of Dr. Arab Hospitals, and Professor Tawfiq Khoja, Secretary General of the Arab Hospitals Union, organized by the Arab Hospitals Union, with the aim of exchanging visions and ideas and crystallizing them into executive frameworks aimed at strengthening health systems and supporting digital transformation processes in all Arab countries, to serve all their citizens.
The conference activities began with honoring the minister by Mr. Fadi Allama, President of the Federation of Arab Hospitals, with the Distinguished Leader Award in the development of the health care sector, wishing him continued success, making distinguished contributions, and achieving promising achievements in the health sector.
The minister pointed out that the “Goals of Egypt” conference will enrich its activities and activities in support of the Egyptian and Arab health work process, stressing that the Egyptian state is proceeding according to an advanced strategy to achieve more successes in digital transformation processes, the most important of which is cooperation and coordination between Arab countries in the medical training file, by developing a plan to train medical teams. Doctors, in addition to overcoming the challenges that may face health systems in the Arab countries, including bridging the shortage between the human cadres of medical teams in all specialties, stressing that this would ensure that every citizen would be able to obtain his right to health, and he also stressed the importance of training the human elements based on the implementation of operations Digital health transformation.
Dr. Hossam Abdel Ghaffar, the official spokesman for the Ministry of Health and Population, stated that the minister stressed that investment in the health field is one of the most important basic determinants of the health development process, in cooperation with Arab countries and pushing them for direct investment, whether in the field of government or private hospitals, explaining that the Ministry of Health and Population is doing its utmost. Her effort to attract foreign investments and direct them to the government and private sectors in Egypt, pointing to her role in opening horizons for cooperation with companies and agencies entrusted with health investment, in a way that serves the vision of the Egyptian state in this regard, in line with achieving the goals of sustainable development 2030.
And he continued, during his speech, the minister stressed that the ministry puts investment in the medical tourism sector at the top of its priority, which is of urgent importance to achieving comprehensive health coverage in all Arab countries, reviewing the pioneering experience of the Egyptian state in developing the health care system and implementing the comprehensive health insurance system, which is being implemented in the governorates. (Port Said, Ismailia, Suez, Luxor and South Sinai) and includes all segments of Egyptian society in a fair and equal manner, in parallel with several other development projects aimed at providing health care adopted by the Egyptian political leadership, such as the initiative of a decent life and the initiatives of the President of the Republic under the slogan (100 million health). This includes a large number of public health initiatives that seek to cover the most vulnerable groups of women, children, the elderly, and patients with communicable and non-communicable diseases.
Abdel Ghaffar added that the minister reviewed the efforts of the Egyptian state and its success in the pharmaceutical manufacturing file, noting Egypt''s readiness to cooperate with Arab countries to coordinate investment in the field of manufacturing medical devices with the aim of achieving self-sufficiency, pointing to the importance of sharing between all parties entrusted with investment and exchanging experiences in this file and setting a vision prospects for the success of this investment file.
For her part, Mrs. Alice Boyes, Executive Director of the Federation of Arab Hospitals, praised the efforts of the Egyptian state to upgrade the health sector, and its role in developing the health care file, and providing comprehensive health coverage, stressing that Egypt, one of the first developed countries in the health file, is an attractive area for investment in the health field, noting He pointed out that it is the pride of the Arab countries to cooperate with the Egyptian state for the success of health systems and their development according to clear and specific future plans and vision, as it called during the conference, all Arab countries, including sectors, bodies, private companies and other concerned parties to participate in the field of health investment, especially the medical tourism file, With the aim of achieving health integration and health security in the Arab world.
