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Tuesday, 31 October 2017

An insipid night on the airwaves: Health insurance is the ‘big lede,’ then we have Maspero, social housing and the Egyptian-Japanese schools (again)

After blessing us with an econ-heavy night on Sunday, the airwaves were mostly insipid last night.

The deputy health minister in charge of health insurance, Ali Hegazy, told Hona AlAsema’s Lamees Al Hadidi that the pricing scheme currently in the works for the Universal Healthcare Act will be applied across Egypt, rather than set varying prices for the different governorates, and will account for all healthcare service providers. The new pricing scheme should be announced by mid-November, according to Hegazy (watch, runtime 3:25).

Health Minister Ahmed Rady had said yesterday that the pricing scheme would be ready next week in preparation for the act’s rollout in early 2018. Rady also met yesterday with ministry officials to prepare the rollout strategy, which includes ensuring hospitals are well-equipped and supplied for implementation, Ahram Gate reports.

Lamees also had a chat with the head of the Central Authority for Organization and Administration, Mohamed Gameel, who said that 344 civil servants will be dismissed from their positions after being named on terror watchlists. The majority of the employees hold positions at universities, according to Gameel (watch, runtime 4:51).

Lamees also had yet another update on how many residents of the Maspero Triangle have agreed to accept financial compensation to leave their homes (watch, runtime 8:04).

Only bureaucrats who work closely with their respective ministers will face reassignment to the new administrative capital, Yahduth fi Misr’s Sherif Amer claims to have been told by unnamed sources.

Over on Kol Youm, Education Minister Tarek Shawki told Amr Adib that the Egyptian-Japanese schools are expected to open their doors during the second semester of the current school year, and that eight campuses have already been completed (watch, runtime 2:36). Tuition fees for the schools will hover around EGP 4,000 per year, Shawki said, adding that the Egyptian government is responsible for paying teachers’ and workers’ salaries, in addition to covering the cost of constructing and operating the schools (watch, runtime 3:12).

Masaa DMC’s Eman El Hosary was squarely focused on discussing the social housing program’s pricing and rate of completion with Mortgage Finance Fund head Mai Abdel Hamid (watch, runtime 4:33) and (watch, runtime 6:30).

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