Health Minister Chairs First Meeting of Committee to Accelerate Universal Health Insurance Rollout

Egypt’s Minister of Health and Population, Khaled Abdel Ghaffar, chaired the first meeting of a committee tasked with accelerating the implementation of the country’s universal health insurance system.

The meeting took place on Monday at the ministry’s headquarters in the New Administrative Capital.

The committee was established by a prime ministerial decision issued in 2026. Monday’s session marked its inaugural meeting under Abdel Ghaffar’s chairmanship.

Its remit is to speed up the rollout of universal health insurance. The brief announcement did not provide details of decisions taken at the meeting or a timetable for the committee’s work.