Social Services - Egypt

Public services

The Egyptian government provides many public services to the Egyptian citizen, including security and health services

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1. Security Services:

The importance of security stability in economic development

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Security stability and economic growth in any country are two sides of the same coin. If there is security stability, it is natural for there to be economic growth regardless of the state’s resources, whether they are weak or strong. In the past years, Egypt witnessed a state of security and political stability, which was reflected in its turn On economic stability as well as growth rates, which witnessed a significant improvement, and this was reflected in all indicators and reports issued by all international bodies.

Do not transfer security inside the Arab Republic of Egypt:

All roads are largely secured in all governorates of the Arab Republic of Egypt, as well as all necessary services are available

Egypt is considered safe around the clock to move on all roads, and in the event of any problems, contact:

• Egyptian emergency phone 122

Combating violence against women:

Women are supported in confronting all kinds of violence through many parties at the time:

1. Women’s Complaints Office of the National Council for Women:

Services provided by the office

• Providing free legal and social advice.
• Refer complaints to the competent authorities and follow them up.
• Referring complaints that require recourse to the judiciary to volunteer lawyers who cooperate with the office through the legal aid program.
• Preparing reports and studies on the problems facing Egyptian women.
• Providing psychological and legal support to battered women, submitting them to the competent authorities, and recommending solutions for them, in cooperation with civil society.
• The Complaints Office cooperates directly with the Unit for Combating Violence against Women, which is affiliated with the Human Rights and Community Outreach Sector at the Ministry of Interior.
• The office cooperates with the Women and Child Rights Sector at the Ministry of Justice to coordinate efforts to eliminate violence against women in coordination with the Ministries of Interior - Health - Social Solidarity.

Ways to file a complaint in the following ways :

• Personal interview at the central office in Cairo or the office’s branches in the governorates.
• Postal letter to the following address: Plot 11 Abdel Razak Al Sanhoury Street, off Makram Ebeid, next to the Child Garden - Nasr City.
• Contact by phone on the short number: 15115

For more details, please click on the following link

2. The Unit for Combating Violence against Women, which is affiliated to the Human Rights and Community Outreach Sector at the Ministry of Interior :

The unit includes distinguished police officers, including specialists in the field of psychiatry, to deal with the victims. The Ministry has allocated the following numbers to receive communications in complete secrecy (01126977222 - 01126977333 - 01126977444).

For more details, please click on the following link

https://site.moi.gov.eg/humanrights/Pages/Sections.aspx

3. To combat harassment cases :

To report, please send a message to 6069 or to the following link:

https://harassmap.org/ar

Contact by phone on the short number: 15115

Contact the following numbers to receive communications in complete confidentiality (01126977222 - 01126977333 - 01126977444).

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2. Health Services

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Health initiatives for Egyptian women:

Emphasizing the state’s interest in the health file, and in the health of Egyptians, President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi launched several presidential initiatives in the field of health during 2019 as well as 2020, the most important of which are:

• quot 100 Million Health Campaign quot

http://www.100millionseha.eg/

• Women 's Health Initiative
• quot a decent life quot
• quot waiting lists quot
• quot Model Hospitals quot

This is in addition to the announcement of the launch of the comprehensive health insurance system at the level of the Republic and many other initiatives. For more details, please click on the following link:

http://www.sis.gov.eg/Story/197588Dazole5-2019?lang=ar

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Treatment of immune diseases:

The Egyptian government is fighting HIV and AIDS in line with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals 2030, and Egypt is considered one of the countries with low prevalence among the general population.

The Ministry of Health takes many steps to eradicate AIDS within the Republic. The Ministry of Health sets its eradication as a goal of the Egyptian national program to maintain Egypt as a country with a low prevalence of AIDS. The program seeks to eliminate AIDS as a public health problem by 2030.

The following are the procedures for treating an AIDS patient in complete secrecy, according to the Egyptian Ministry of Health:

• If the patient feels weak immunity, this may be a cause of AIDS infection, so he must go immediately to the nearest health point.
• In the event that an AIDS patient is confirmed to have contracted the infection, he should go to the nearest center for examination, dispense the necessary treatment, and take care of the disease itself. There are more than 14 centers in 14 governorates across the country for the treatment of AIDS.
• In the event of refusal to perform the treatment service for the patient, the service provider shall be subject to the law; In the event of refusal to receive the patient, he must file a complaint with the AIDS Control Office and the Citizens Service Office at the Ministry of Health.
• The Ministry of Health has established AIDS hotlines to direct any complaint or inquiry quot080070080000quot as well as a landline quot02/33152801quot.
• There is a third line of treatment, quotTherapeutic Linequot 02/33152801quot, which is the line dedicated to taking care of the patient's health condition.

It is reported that all these procedures are conducted in the strictest confidentiality.

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