{"id":177578,"date":"2024-07-30T21:04:05","date_gmt":"2024-07-30T19:04:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egypt\/egypt-new-law-threatens-to-reduce-access-to-healthcare-for-millions\/"},"modified":"2024-07-30T21:04:05","modified_gmt":"2024-07-30T19:04:05","slug":"egypt-new-law-threatens-to-reduce-access-to-healthcare-for-millions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egypt\/egypt-new-law-threatens-to-reduce-access-to-healthcare-for-millions\/","title":{"rendered":"Egypt – New Law Threatens to Reduce Access to Healthcare for Millions"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A new law privatizing healthcare in Egypt will jeopardize the accessibility and availability of health services, particularly for those lacking health insurance and\/or living in poverty, Amnesty International said today.<\/p>\n

On 23 June, President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi ratified Law 87 of 2024 on health facilities, passed by Egypt’s parliament on 20 May, that allows the private sector to operate and manage public health facilities on a for-profit basis. The law does not include any price regulations,…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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A new law privatizing healthcare in Egypt will jeopardize the accessibility and availability of health services, particularly for those lacking health insurance and\/or living in poverty, Amnesty International said today. On 23 June, President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi ratified Law 87 of 2024 on health facilities, passed by Egypt’s parliament on 20 May, that allows the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":177579,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[338],"tags":[6450,258,256,4697,415,12370,7077,7033,257,8391,254,10413],"class_list":["post-177578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-egypt","tag-access","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-egypt","tag-egypt-news","tag-healthcare","tag-law","tag-millions","tag-news","tag-reduce","tag-south-africa-today","tag-threatens"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177578\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/177579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}