{"id":987521759,"date":"2021-11-07T03:08:22","date_gmt":"2021-11-07T02:08:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/news\/bahrain-issues-health-insurance-law-for-universal-healthcare-coverage\/"},"modified":"2023-03-02T10:54:47","modified_gmt":"2023-03-02T09:54:47","slug":"bahrain-issues-health-insurance-law-for-universal-healthcare-coverage","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/news\/bahrain-issues-health-insurance-law-for-universal-healthcare-coverage\/","title":{"rendered":"Bahrain issues health insurance law for universal healthcare coverage"},"content":{"rendered":"

In line with Goal three<\/a> of the United Nation\u2019s Sustainable Development Goals<\/a>, \u2018Good health and well-being for people to ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages\u2019, the Kingdom of Bahrain has introduced a universal health coverage scheme giving patients the freedom of selecting their caregiver of choice.<\/p>\n

This pragmatic approach to healthcare will be funded by a health insurance fund cumulating its capital from diverted citizen allocations and annual subscriptions paid by or on behalf of foreigners and their subjects. <\/p>\n

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\u201cThe Fund will cover mandatory health insurance subscriptions for national citizens and the equivalent and for non Bahrainis who hold positions in any government body.\u201d<\/h3>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Read the full news article originally published in tamimi.com here.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

Find the full health insurance law document in arabic here<\/a> (re-posted on the ILO webpage).<\/em><\/p>\n

Image credits: Flag Icons<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

Have anything to say about Bahrain’s National Health Insurance and social health protection policy? Please let us know in the comments section below.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In line with Goal three of the United Nation\u2019s Sustainable Development Goals, \u2018Good health and well-being for people to ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages\u2019, the Kingdom of Bahrain has introduced a universal health coverage scheme giving patients the freedom of selecting their caregiver of choice. This pragmatic approach to…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":559,"featured_media":987532903,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[],"tags":[123,2316],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/987521759"}],"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=987521759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/987521759\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/987532903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=987521759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=987521759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=987521759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}