The Minister of Health announces a medical insurance plan for New Year and Christmas celebrations
Dr. Khaled Abdel Ghaffar, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Health and Population, announced the medical insurance plan for New Year’s and Christmas celebrations in 2025, within the framework of the Ministry’s plan to preserve the public health of citizens.
Dr. Khaled Abdel Ghaffar explained, The plan includes a number of axes: prevention, ambulatory services, critical and urgent care, health awareness and education, follow-up and evaluation. “The plan,” pointing to the formation of a central follow-up room that includes (the therapeutic medicine sector, the central administration for therapeutic affairs, the central administration for emergency and urgent care), as well as the formation of follow-up rooms in the health affairs directorates in the governorates.
Dr. Hossam Abdel Ghaffar, the spokesman, pointed out The official statement of the Ministry of Health and Population aims to raise the degree of preparedness in public and central hospitals, and to ensure the availability of sufficient stocks of medicines and medical supplies, as well as the supply of treatment convoys. And mobile clinics with a sufficient stock of medicines and supplies, distributing convoys near churches, parks and public gardens, and supporting remote areas and regions of Upper Egypt.
Abdul Ghaffar continued that the plan included raising the Egyptian Ambulance Authority to the maximum level of readiness in all governorates, explaining 661 ambulances were stationed to secure churches, gardens, parks, and public places, and 1,044 cars were stationed to secure highways and axes, in addition to activating the crisis management and central follow-up room. Around the clock to follow up on events and submit periodic reports and developments of events to the senior management of the Ambulance Authority, in addition to following up with the Crisis Room of the Council of Ministers, and radio communication with the emergency and civil defense sectors and the relevant health directorates.
Abdul Ghaffar added, “The preparations are The preventive medical insurance plan included a number of axes, namely: (Continuing to provide the necessary preventive services, applying precautionary measures at border crossings, food security and safety, healthy environment measures, disease vector control, applying precautionary measures during gatherings, supervision and follow-up).
Abdul Ghaffar explained, providing a strategic stock. Of preventive and therapeutic vaccinations and serums in the preventive room at the level of all health affairs directorates in the governorates, and providing therapeutic serums in hospitals, in addition to raising the degree of preparedness in the preventive emergency room in the General Office. The Ministry, as well as the preventive rooms in all health affairs directorates in the governorates, receive inquiries, complaints, reports and daily reports around the clock, as well as continuous monitoring of the global epidemiological situation of diseases and emergency health events around the world and immediate reporting to take the necessary measures, and coordination with public and central hospitals and poison centers for early detection of any cases. Suspected cases of food poisoning and intestinal infections, immediately reporting them and following them up.
Abdul Ghaffar confirmed: To implement precautionary measures at border crossings (quarantine), by raising the maximum level of preparedness at all ports of entry, taking all necessary health measures, and ensuring the provision of all required emergency medicines, vaccines, and serums, pointing to achieving food security and safety by forming teams from the public administration. To monitor food in cooperation with the health affairs directorates in the governorates, in order to ensure compliance (health requirements, food handling personnel, safety of food products, destruction of food items unfit for human use), in addition to collecting samples. (Food, water) and analyzed in the central laboratories and their branches, and to ensure that they meet health requirements.
Abdul Ghaffar indicated the identification of medical evacuation hospitals in the governorates, and the identification of precise and highly specialized medical specialties in each region, explaining the activation of the notification mechanism. Communicating emergency health services and receiving all medical consultations regarding poisons through the emergency services line 137.
He added that awareness and community communication teams will be deployed in The surroundings of parks, public squares, places where citizens gather, and churches across the governorates of the Republic, to educate citizens about the healthy habits that must be followed, in addition to introducing them to the services of presidential health initiatives and their locations.
He stressed "Abdul Ghaffar" The General Authority for Health Care has raised the level of readiness in health units and hospitals in the comprehensive health insurance governorates (Port Said, Luxor, Ismailia, South Sinai, Aswan, Suez), which number 267 units, family medicine centers and 35 hospitals, in addition to raising the level of readiness in all of those hospitals. Governorates and emergency departments, with the availability of appropriate means of communication between the rooms of the national network in hospitals, ensuring rapid intervention in emergency situations and dealing with them, in addition to the readiness of rapid deployment teams, and coordination with
