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General Objective:

·        Providing medical services for citizens without financial or geographical impediments, with high quality as well as raising coverage from 27% to 100%in three years time.

Specific Objectives:-

·        Setting a system that secures getting of medical services by citizens without financial impediments.

·        Contributing in health development.

·        Guaranteeing the quality of services provided by medical institutions as well as promoting and developing them.

Guaranteeing the availability of medical services close to the citizen houses locations.

·       At individuals’ level, medical treatment constitutes a worry for most citizens and many obstacles face the integration of all citizens of which is related to behavior, conduct of the individual, some are related to personal income and some is related with institutions to integrate all community segments under the base of medical insurance. Therefore, the Comprehensive Medical Insurance Coverage Project for All Khartoum State’s Citizens to be introduced through:

1-   Semi regular sector ( trade unions, associations , organizations ….etc)

2-   Housing Zones (families – individuals.)

·       Medical insurance system is a joint liability system in which the subscriber pays according to his income to receive medical service and medication according to his and family members needs.

  

 

 

 

1- Semi Regular Sector:

There are enrolled according to segment and the body organizing it, such as union, organization trade union or market committee for example. Profession exercise and the licenses thereof can be linked with joining medical insurance.

 

2- Housing Zones:-

They are integrated by making a survey for the localities by population census. This survey specifies the targeted sectors and the sectors that can be covered by other systems. 

   

·  Population Number = 6,000,000 persons

·  Bodies of Special Services

· (Regular Forces and other)                      = 1,250,000 persons

·  Medical Insurance Targeted Number      = 4,750,000 persons

·  No of medical insurance targeted families      

(Average per family: 5 persons)              = 950,000 families

 

These targeted families are divided into three groups:

·       Families of good living conditions and can fully pay the insurance subscription. They constitute 15% (142,500 families).

·       Families of middle income. They need medical insurance and can contribute in the service cost. They constitute 50% (475,000 families)

·       Poor Families: they need insurance and can no contribute in the service cost. They constitute 35% (332,500 families)    

 

For implementing the goal of Medical Insurance comprehensive Coverage, the number of targeted families is (690,000) distributed as follows:

·       Good-income families. Their number is ( 142,500 families)

·       Middle-income families. Their number is (475,000 families)

(Insurance currently covers (237,000 families)   

·       Poor families. Their number is (332,500 families)

(Insurance currently covers 23,000 families)
 

·       Compulsory subscription for all the citizens in Khartoum State. That shall be in public, private and self-employed sectors.

·       Employees of public and private sectors shall be entered through their institutions.

·       Employees of self-employed sector who do not have regular wage or specific employer shall be entered through localities and popular committees.

·       Employees in non-regular sector who do not have regular wage nor specific employer but they are members of an association, trade union or organization such as (tradesmen,  mini bus drivers, and merchants ….etc) are entered through their trade union organizations.

 

 

·       Political commitment of the state represented in paying the required amount annually.

·       Issuance of an Act that immediately makes medical insurance compulsory for all the citizens of the Khartoum State (KS) and keenness for its implementation as well as linking medical insurance card with some procedures in the country (such as ; work) after the end of five years. Political commitment by the mayors in propagation and motivation of the irregular community complexes to enter into medical insurance program.

·       Commitment by the KS to rehabilitate medical institutions periodically as well as covering the shortage therein during the period.

·       Activating medical insurance mechanisms in the KS for entering these groups.

·       Commitment by the Ministry of Health to strictly control  medical units as well as guaranteeing the presence of medical frameworks therein besides good quality of provided services.  

·       The medical insurance should make contracts with government and private institutions besides organizations during this period. The contract condition should be obligation with required quality and medical insurance prices.

·       Presence of a rule for entering the medical institutions in insurance program and sending out any unit not complying with the required rules.