{"id":987521709,"date":"2021-11-30T03:08:01","date_gmt":"2021-11-30T02:08:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/news\/the-lebanese-national-social-security-fund-requests-increased-financing\/"},"modified":"2023-03-02T10:39:18","modified_gmt":"2023-03-02T09:39:18","slug":"the-lebanese-national-social-security-fund-requests-increased-financing","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/news\/the-lebanese-national-social-security-fund-requests-increased-financing\/","title":{"rendered":"The Lebanese National Social Security Fund requests increased financing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Lebanese National Social Security Fund (NSSF) serves a particularly important role in the wake of the current crisis engulfing the country, as medical bills have significantly inflated and even the most prominent hospitals are struggling to&nbsp;maintain their operation.<\/p>\n<p>To ensure continued medical coverage, the NSSF has requested the Finance Ministry to release 4 trillion Lebanese pounds (2.6 trillion USD)&nbsp;in dues. If the sum is not paid up, more than 1.6 million people will be vulnerable to out of pocket payments for health care services in Lebanon.<\/p>\n<p><em>To know more, read the full news article originally published in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.the961.com\/finance-ministry-trillions-social-security\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the 961 here.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Image credits: iStock<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Have anything to say about Lebanon&#8217;s National Social Security Fund and social health protection policy? Please let us know in the comments section below.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Lebanese National Social Security Fund (NSSF) serves a particularly important role in the wake of the current crisis engulfing the country, as medical bills have significantly inflated and even the most prominent hospitals are struggling to&nbsp;maintain their operation. To ensure continued medical coverage, the NSSF has requested the Finance Ministry to release 4 trillion&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":559,"featured_media":987531845,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[],"tags":[123],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/987521709"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/559"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=987521709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/987521709\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/987531845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=987521709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=987521709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=987521709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}