and developing it, improving its quality, safeguarding the rights of users, as well as regulating the provision of health insurance services in accordance with quality and accreditation standards. The manufacture of the Hepatitis C drug in Egypt has helped reduce the cost of treatment for the patient by 85 percent, and the waiting lists have been completely reduced. The recovery rate has increased to four times the global average, with more than 1.5 million patients undergoing treatment. A comprehensive survey is currently underway in all governorates to provide treatment for all patients in order to eradicate the Hepatitis C virus completely in Egypt. To ensure the rights of those who cannot afford treatment, a total of 2,773, 678 treatment decisions were issued by the Specialist Medical Boards during the period from 1/7/2016 to 30/6/2017 at state expense, benefiting 1,500,020 patients, with a total expenditure of about 5 billion pounds. In order to ensure the speedy delivery of medical service to the recipients of medical treatment at the expense of the state, several measures were introduced, including the automation of issuing these decisions, which is now carried out electronically, reducing the time between applications for and issuing of treatment decision to 48 hours for emergencies and 72 hours for other procedures. Specialist Medical Boards have been linked to a number of 13 medical sub-councils via a video conferencing network to enable discussion of cases that need to be presented to the specialist high committees and to establish strategies for new procedures such as prostheses and treatment of conditions affecting the immune system, with all these initiatives added to the package of measures for which state-funded treatment decisions are issued. The prices of the existing state-funded treatment programs have been increased, in line with the current market prices. In order to reduce the incidence of infectious diseases and to reduce the incidence of epidemics and mitigate their effects as they occur, the Ministry of Health has been keen to update and develop all healthcare programs serving citizens, in terms of diagnostic tools and environmental systems to monitor diseases through provision of the latest technology for rapid exchange of disease data and online updating of health threats in order to ensure early detection and rapid intervention in a timely manner, with information on births, deaths, causes of death and vaccination notifications also updated to electronic databases to complete the automation system in the country. 52