{"id":987770886,"date":"2025-05-15T09:00:25","date_gmt":"2025-05-15T08:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/?post_type=news&#038;p=987770886"},"modified":"2025-05-14T19:05:50","modified_gmt":"2025-05-14T18:05:50","slug":"belize-prime-minister-announces-nationwide-health-insurance-rollout","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/news\/belize-prime-minister-announces-nationwide-health-insurance-rollout\/","title":{"rendered":"Belize Prime Minister announces nationwide Health Insurance rollout"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[et_pb_section fb_built=&#8221;1&#8243; admin_label=&#8221;!!! PLEASE DO NOT EDIT !!!&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.19.5&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][et_pb_row admin_label=&#8221;!!! 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The counter at the bottom can help.&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.21.0&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; custom_padding=&#8221;||20px||false|false&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Prime Minister of Belize announces full National Health Insurance (NHI) rollout by the end of 2025.\u00a0 The NHI has been implemented in phases and now will reach the entire population with the goal of bringing affordable quality health care to all Belizeans.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text admin_label=&#8221;TO BE EDITED &#8211; TEXT OF THE NEWS &#8211; BLOCK 1 &#8211; Click on the WHEEL icon to open the textarea where you can paste or type your news. PLEASE USE ONLY THE FEATURED IMAGE FUNCTION on your right column to add the image.&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.21.0&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; custom_padding=&#8221;||1em||false|false&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p>In May 2025, Belize Prime Minister John Brice\u00f1o confirmed that the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhi.bz\/\">National Health Insurance (NHI) program <\/a>will be rolled out in the entire country by the end of the year.\u00a0 Since the original pilot in 2001, the NHI has been gradually implemented in phases across select regions and provides a package of health services to Belizeans at little no cost.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text admin_label=&#8221;TO BE EDITED &#8211; TEXT OF THE NEWS &#8211; BLOCK 2 &#8211; Click on the WHEEL icon to open the textarea where you can paste or type your news. PLEASE USE ONLY THE FEATURED IMAGE FUNCTION on your right column to add the image.&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.21.0&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/documents\/national-health-insurance-strategic-plan-2023-2027\/\">strategic plan 2023- 2027 <\/a>outlines the roll out plans as well as sustainable financing goals and governance aspects. When fully rolled out, the NHI program is expected to cover primary care services including general medical consultations, diagnostics, medications, maternal and child health, and management of chronic illnesses. Government sources indicate that further improvements in digital health records and service monitoring will be integrated to ensure transparency and accountability.<\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Prime Minister of Belize announces full National Health Insurance (NHI) rollout by the end of 2025.\u00a0 The NHI has been implemented in phases and now will reach the entire population with the goal of bringing affordable quality health care to all Belizeans.In May 2025, Belize Prime Minister John Brice\u00f1o confirmed that the National Health&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":987770927,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[122,134],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/987770886"}],"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\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=987770886"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/987770886\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":987770891,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/987770886\/revisions\/987770891"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/987770927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=987770886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=987770886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=987770886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}