Dr. Abdul Moneim Ebaid, member of the Right to Health Committee at the specialized national councils, warned against the growing spread of hepatitis C and B, which is called the "yellow AIDS". Egypt would suffer a new type of this disease during the coming period, namely "a mixed hepatitis C and B together", a Professor of Anesthesia at Cairo Faculty of Medicine said, pointing out that the Egyptians are in need of sound livers after Egypt has turned into an industrial polluted country that has no place for the healthy.
During a conference on social and environmental determinants of health in Egypt yesterday, he rejected the enforcement of the law on organ transplant without a comprehensive health insurance for patients, especially the poor. Such surgeries need long-term treatments and, therefore, there should be a high-quality health service to ensure success. "If Egypt can not cultivate maize, how can it transplant organs?" he mockingly said.
On the other hand, the coordinator of the global secretariat of the People's Health Movement Hani Serag reviewed two reports saying that the Egyptians pay nearly 64 per cent of the total cost of health in Egypt from their own pockets. 30 per cent is spent by the State, but this money comes is from taxes, the reports say, adding that the private sector contributes to only 6% of the cost.
