Egypt allocates LE397B for health sector in 2023/24 budget

CAIRO - 26 April 2023: Allocations for the health sector in the next fiscal year 2023/2024 amount to LE 397 billion, with an annual increase of 30.4 percent, Minister of Finance, Mohamed Maait said, noting that the constitutional entitlement of the health sector has been fulfilled in the new budget.

 

Article 18 of the Egyptian Constitution stipulates that the state is committed to allocating a percentage of government spending for health that is not less than 3 percent of the gross domestic product (GDP), gradually increasing until it is in line with international rates.

 

The minister added in a statement that the health sector tops the presidential priorities in a way that contributes to the provision of good health care services, as an inherent human right.

 

Funds have been increased to provide medicines, medical supplies, and raw materials to hospitals affiliated with the Ministry of Health and health affairs directorates in the governorates.

 

In addition to increasing the cost of treatment at the state’s expense and the volume of support directed to health insurance programs for various groups and segments of society and health insurance for those who are unable, increasing the categories of medical professions’ risk allowance, increasing the emergency incentive and the counterpart of shifts, and the burdens of designated taxpayers, according to the statement.