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Dr. Badrawi gives a speech about health care in Egypt

At the invitation of the Egyptian British Business Association, Prof. Dr. Hossam Badrawi participated today as a speaker in the presence of the Minister of Finance, Dr. Mohamed Maait, in a discussion session entitled “New Horizons in Health Care in Egypt” sponsored by the British Egyptian Business Association (BEBA). Dr. Badrawi revealed that 60% of Egyptians pay In return for obtaining health services from their own money and they are not subject to any insurance system. In his speech, he stressed that the comprehensive health insurance system aims to provide an insurance umbrella for all citizens in the country, noting that the new system will provide a 100% free umbrella for citizens. He explained that comprehensive health insurance includes enormous opportunities for the health system in Egypt, whether for the citizen, health investment, or health insurance brokerage companies, which number more than 50 companies. And he called for the need for integration between state institutions, legislative bodies, the private sector, as well as the citizen to provide the expenses required for the formation of the system, with the aim of benefiting from the complete system. He called on the government to present the results of the health insurance pilot project, which was launched in Port Said Governorate, to identify the strengths and weaknesses of the system before disseminating it at the state level.

About Dr. Hossam Badrawi

Dr. Hossam Badrawi
He is a politician, intellect, and prominent physician. He is the former head of the Gynecology Department, Faculty of Medicine Cairo University. He conducted his post graduate studies from 1979 till 1981 in the United States. He was elected as a member of the Egyptian Parliament and chairman of the Education and Scientific Research Committee in the Parliament from 2000 till 2005. As a politician, Dr. Hossam Badrawi was known for his independent stances. His integrity won the consensus of all people from various political trends. During the era of former president Hosni Mubarak he was called The Rationalist in the National Democratic Party NDP because his political calls and demands were consistent to a great extent with calls for political and democratic reform in Egypt. He was against extending the state of emergency and objected to the National Democratic Party's unilateral constitutional amendments during the January 25, 2011 revolution. He played a very important political role when he defended, from the very first beginning of the revolution, the demonstrators' right to call for their demands. He called on the government to listen and respond to their demands. Consequently and due to Dr. Badrawi's popularity, Mubarak appointed him as the NDP Secretary General thus replacing the members of the Bureau of the Commission. During that time, Dr. Badrawi expressed his political opinion to Mubarak that he had to step down. He had to resign from the party after 5 days of his appointment on February 10 when he declared his political disagreement with the political leadership in dealing with the demonstrators who called for handing the power to the Muslim Brotherhood. Therefore, from the very first moment his stance was clear by rejecting a religion-based state which he considered as aiming to limit the Egyptians down to one trend. He considered deposed president Mohamed Morsi's decision to bring back the People's Assembly as a reinforcement of the US-supported dictatorship. He was among the first to denounce the incursion of Morsi's authority over the judicial authority, condemning the Brotherhood militias' blockade of the Supreme Constitutional Court. Dr. Hossam supported the Tamarod movement in its beginning and he declared that toppling the Brotherhood was a must and a pressing risk that had to be taken few months prior to the June 30 revolution and confirmed that the army would support the legitimacy given by the people