Health Insurance Chief’s Surprise Visit Finds Medicine Shortages at Barakat El-Sabaa Clinic

A surprise inspection by Dr Tamer Madkour, chairman of Egypt’s General Authority for Health Insurance, revealed medicine shortages at the authority’s clinic in Barakat El-Sabaa, in Menoufia governorate.

Madkour’s field visit covered the health insurance clinics in both Barakat El-Sabaa and Quesna, with a focus on how regularly services were operating and the standard of care provided to beneficiaries.

The inspection was aimed at assessing day-to-day work at the two facilities and monitoring the medical services available to patients covered by health insurance.

The reported medicine shortages concerned the Barakat El-Sabaa clinic. No details were provided about which medicines were unavailable, the extent of the shortages or any measures taken to address them.