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Health Systems Profile- Egypt Regional Health Systems Observatory- EMRO
• The data refer only to physicians employed by the MOHP. When the whole of
the health workforce is considered, the proportion of specialists is even
higher. The 1995 Provider Survey showed that 88% of private physicians are
specialists.
• Family physicians would be treated as specialists in primary care and
therefore do not register on this table.
• Ministerial decree NO 62/2004 stated that :the physicians who attend the
family medicine fellowship course should be treated as specialist
There are two dominant employers of health personnel in Egypt, the MOHP and the HIO.
In addition, other organizations and ministries (notably the Ministry of Higher Education
[MOHE]) employ health personnel, as do the military, public organizations such as Egypt
Air, Curative Care Organizations (CCOs), General Organization for Hospitals and
Teaching Institutes, NGOs, and private hospitals. There are also significant numbers of
self-employed doctors, dentists and pharmacists.
The numbers employed by the two main organizations are given in Table 8.1.6, below.
Table 8.1.6: comparison of MOHP and HIO personnel (2005)
Health Personnel
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Reg 2005
MOHP
In post
2005
% Reg 2005
HIO
In post
2005
Physicians 68,499 46,160 67.39 7,288 5,830 79.99
Dentists 9,367 7,092 75.71 1,882 1,569 83.37
Pharmacists 10,083 7,561 74.99 2,661 2,335 87.75
Graduate Nurses 4,420 3,497 79.12 1,126 996 88.45
Nurse technicians 2,308 2,096 90.81
Diploma Nurses 98,248 87,465 89.02 19,390 18,117 93.43
Nursing(other) 4,397 4,137 94.09 1,306 1,301 99.62
Subtotal, all nurse
Technicians
109,373 97,195 88.87 21,822 20,414 93.55
32,079 28,075 87.52 3,011 2,661 88.38
Assistant Technicians
Source: NICHP
1,150 10,474
The main features of the data in the table above are as follows.
The two main employers together only employ just less than half of the health
workforce. Other ministries and the private sector are also major employers of
health personnel. Hence, if the MOHP wishes to control the distribution of the health
workforce it can only partially do this through its own employment or deployment
procedures: it must also exert control through the regulation of other employers.
The HIO are marginally more successful in retaining their staff, probably due to the
better terms and conditions offered.
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