An urgent decision from the Minister of Health regarding ambulance workers… Details

Today, Dr. Khaled Abdel Ghaffar, Minister of Health and Population, approved the inclusion of members of the medical professions working in the Egyptian Ambulance Authority into the membership of the Medical Professions Risk Compensation Fund officially, in preparation for presentation to the Council of Ministers, in order to obtain its approval in this regard, in his capacity as Chairman of the Board of Directors. Medical Professions Risk Compensation Fund.

This decision came during a meeting of Dr. Khaled Abdel Ghaffar, Minister of Social Solidarity Dr. Nevin Al-Qabbaj, Major General Hussein Dahrouj, Executive Director of the Compensation Fund, and Dr. Hussein Khairy, Head of the Doctors Syndicate, as well as a number of leaders of the Ministry of Health, and many representatives of the concerned authorities, at the headquarters of the Ministry. Health and population.

Activate the work of the fund

Dr. Hossam Abdel Ghaffar, the official spokesman for the Ministry of Health and Population, said that the minister announced, at the beginning of the meeting, the approval and activation of the fund’s work through the organizational structure approved by the Central Agency for Organization and Administration, in addition to approving the fund’s financial and administrative regulations, which are approved by the Special Regulations Committee formed by the decision of the Minister of Finance. .

The official spokesman stated that the minister directed during the meeting to study the provision of additional benefits to the families of the martyrs and the injured from the medical teams members of the fund, and also directed that 25% of the fund’s employees be from the families of deceased cases from the medical teams subject to the provisions of the fund, pointing out his keenness to consolidate ways of cooperation. With the various stakeholders, to ensure maximum benefit for the medical teams and their families from the targeted.

Establishment of the Medical Professions Risk Fund

Abdul Ghaffar indicated that the Medical Professions Risk Fund was established under Law 184 of 2020 issued by a republican decree, out of concern for the state to support medical personnel, and in appreciation of their efforts and sacrifices to serve and protect the country, as well as granting benefits for cases of death or injury that result. Total or partial disability of all medical staff as a result of performing their work and providing social care to Fund members and their families.