{"id":987525728,"date":"2022-06-27T03:50:45","date_gmt":"2022-06-27T02:50:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/news\/jordans-lower-house-passes-2022-budget-bill-key-takeaways-for-health\/"},"modified":"2023-03-02T09:37:34","modified_gmt":"2023-03-02T08:37:34","slug":"jordans-lower-house-passes-2022-budget-bill-key-takeaways-for-health","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/news\/jordans-lower-house-passes-2022-budget-bill-key-takeaways-for-health\/","title":{"rendered":"Jordan\u2019s lower house passes 2022 budget bill: Key takeaways for health"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jordan\u2019s lower house on Monday passed the <strong>2022 draft laws for the state budget<\/strong> and for this year\u2019s budgets of independent public institutions after marathon deliberations that took place for seven days.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Healthcare allocations are increased<\/strong> in the budget law by <strong>JD 177 million<\/strong> to a total of JD 1.113 billion against JD 956 million in the 2021 budget, including JD 110 million set aside for the response to the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>The government has allocated JD 20 million for the Social Security Corporation\u2019s Estidama (sustainability), which targets sectors hard-hit by the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>Jordan&#8217;s <strong>Health Budget Statement<\/strong> is released every year by the General Budget Department of Jordan consisting of trends in expenditure across various sectors in healthcare among other things. You may find this year&#8217;s Health Budget Statement <strong>below<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>[1 Jordanian Dinar JD = 1.41 United States Dollar USD]<\/p>\n<p><em>Read the full article originally published in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.arabnews.com\/node\/2024676\/middle-east\">Arab News here.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Have anything to say about Jordan&#8217;s public expenditure and investment in healthcare? Please let us know in the comments section below.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><sup><em>Image: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pexels.com\/photo\/white-and-blue-health-pill-and-tablet-letter-cutout-on-yellow-surface-806427\/\">Pexels<\/a><\/em><\/sup><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jordan\u2019s lower house on Monday passed the 2022 draft laws for the state budget and for this year\u2019s budgets of independent public institutions after marathon deliberations that took place for seven days. Healthcare allocations are increased in the budget law by JD 177 million to a total of JD 1.113 billion against JD 956 million&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":559,"featured_media":987527755,"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\/987525728"}],"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=987525728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/987525728\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/987527755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=987525728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=987525728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=987525728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}