{"id":987521794,"date":"2021-10-16T03:09:08","date_gmt":"2021-10-16T02:09:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/news\/bearing-the-cost-of-healthcare-for-syrian-refugees-is-a-challenge-in-jordan\/"},"modified":"2023-03-02T10:58:23","modified_gmt":"2023-03-02T09:58:23","slug":"bearing-the-cost-of-healthcare-for-syrian-refugees-is-a-challenge-in-jordan","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/news\/bearing-the-cost-of-healthcare-for-syrian-refugees-is-a-challenge-in-jordan\/","title":{"rendered":"Bearing the cost of healthcare for Syrian refugees is a challenge in Jordan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span><span><span><span><span lang=\"EN-GB\"><span><span><span><span>Jordan hosts more than 650,000 registered Syrian refugees and shares the cost of healthcare that is made available to them through the country\u2019s public health services. To address the financial strain that this causes to the government\u2019s exchequer, the latter significantly hiked the cost of public health services for Syrian refugees in March this year. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span><span><span><span lang=\"EN-GB\"><span><span><span><span>While the decision makes sense for a country already suffering from high unemployment, fragile infrastructure and a scarcity of natural resources, <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><span lang=\"EN-GB\"><span><span><span>the scale of the increase will put even basic medical treatment beyond the reach of most Syrians.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span><span><span><span lang=\"EN-GB\"><span><span><span>Sustained multi-year funding to support Jordan\u2019s public health system, with affordable access by refugees to public health services by key development actors may be a possible solution here.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>To know more read the entire article originally published in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.unhcr.org\/news\/latest\/2018\/4\/5adefa8a4\/jordan-health-cost-hikes-leave-syrians-dire-need.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">UNHCR<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Have anything to say about Jordan&#8217;s health financing for UHC and social health protection? Please let us know in the Comments Section below.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jordan hosts more than 650,000 registered Syrian refugees and shares the cost of healthcare that is made available to them through the country\u2019s public health services. To address the financial strain that this causes to the government\u2019s exchequer, the latter significantly hiked the cost of public health services for Syrian refugees in March this year&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":559,"featured_media":987533162,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[],"tags":[131],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/987521794"}],"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=987521794"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/987521794\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/987533162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=987521794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=987521794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=987521794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}