World Bank helps finance Egypt's Universal Health Insurance System

The World Bank has approved financing worth $400 million to support Egypt’s transformational Universal Health Insurance System as the country’s pathway toward achieving universal health coverage.

The project will support the Government of Egypt as it puts in place the building blocks of the Universal Health Insurance System; to roll the system out in Phase I Governorates; and to offer temporary financial protection to the most vulnerable across the country to protect them from high out-of-pocket health expenditures resulting from the COVID-19 outbreak.