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and in LebanonA large number of hospitals are threatened with closure with the insane rise in hospital costs in line with the high price dollarwhich reflected jumps in the cost of supplies and medical services Until the citizen is no longer able to pay it, in addition to a mass emigration of doctors from the country, which has registered about 3,000 doctors since 2019, according to official statistics.
In order to confront this critical situation, the Lebanese began to shorten his visits to private clinics, in which the costs of the first visit reached 800,000 pounds, after before the crisis in 2019 it ranged between 50,000 and 100,000 pounds.
The Lebanese Minister of Health, Firas Al-Abyad, spoke to "Sky News Arabia"revealing the serious repercussions of the economic crisis on the health side, and its most prominent indicators "The significant decline in receiving vaccinations against various diseases, to about 60 percent, after it was 95 percent".
Except that white mentioned that "Vaccines are available in the health care centers of the Ministry, and obtaining them is free for Lebanese and non-Lebanese".
The minister also called on citizens to visit care centers in various Lebanese regions, to obtain free of charge about 90 medicines that treat chronic diseases.
What is the role of these centers?
The Director of the National Primary Health Care Program at the Ministry of Health in Lebanon, Randa Hamadeh, called on citizens and residents to register in primary health care centers spread all over the Lebanese territory, in order to obtain the medicines and medical services they provide. "The Ministry of Health relies on it to provide basic health services with the support of the European Union, the World Health Organization and UNICEF".
Hamada confirmed to "Sky News Arabia"that "The centers have several roles, starting with examining the patient and diagnosing his condition to giving him the appropriate, as well as providing periodic examinations for children and basic vaccinations for them.".
She added that "These centers, which are currently 262 centers, are concerned with the annual periodic examinations of citizens (sound images and radiographs), and they guarantee high quality services such as family medicine, children, gynecology, obstetrics and dentistry, in addition to examinations and radiographs related to basic care that does not require a referral of the patient to the hospital.".
According to the health official, these centers impose a symbolic tariff ranging between 5 thousand and 18 thousand pounds for the examination, and their services include about 980,000 Lebanese citizens and 36,000 residents, and they provide more than 4 million various services for these.
Hamada continued: "These centers provide non-commercial chronic and non-chronic disease medicines, such as the pressure diabetes, coronary artery disease, psychiatric and mental diseases, and a hundred types of medicines and analgesics that treat other diseases approved by the Ministry of Health, such as intestinal diseases, children’s diseases, andskin diseases".
Hamada wished from the citizen "Heading to the nearest care center to register his personal data, then conducting an examination with the center’s doctor, on the basis of which a file is opened for the concerned person, and the medicines he needs to obtain free of charge are determined".
She said: "People with chronic diseases especially benefit because they are guaranteed access to their medication and continuous health follow-up regardless of their nationality".
With regard to vaccinations for children, she pointed out that "Care centers provide basic vaccines for free through UNICEF, according to WHO specifications and EU support, for diseases such as polio, rubella and others.".
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and in LebanonA large number of hospitals are threatened with closure with the insane rise in hospital costs in line with the high price dollarwhich reflected jumps in the cost of supplies and medical services Until the citizen is no longer able to pay it, in addition to a mass emigration of doctors from the country, which has registered about 3,000 doctors since 2019, according to official statistics.
In order to confront this critical situation, the Lebanese began to shorten his visits to private clinics, in which the costs of the first visit reached 800,000 pounds, after before the crisis in 2019 it ranged between 50,000 and 100,000 pounds.
The Lebanese Minister of Health, Firas Al-Abyad, spoke to “Sky News Arabia”, revealing the serious repercussions of the economic crisis on the health side, the most prominent of which are “the significant decline in receiving vaccines against various diseases, to about 60 percent, after it was 95 percent.”
However, Al-Abyadh stated that “vaccines are available in the health care centers affiliated with the ministry, and access to them is free for Lebanese and non-Lebanese.”
The minister also called on citizens to visit care centers in various Lebanese regions, to obtain free of charge about 90 medicines that treat chronic diseases.
What is the role of these centers?
The Director of the National Primary Health Care Program at the Ministry of Health in Lebanon, Randa Hamadeh, called on citizens and residents to register in primary health care centers spread all over Lebanon, in order to obtain the medicines and medical services they provide, as “the Ministry of Health relies on them to secure basic health services with support.” from the European Union, the World Health Organization and UNICEF.
Hamada confirmed to “Sky News Arabia”, that “the centers have several roles, starting with examining the patient and diagnosing his condition, to giving him the appropriate, as well as providing periodic examinations for children and basic vaccinations for them.”
She added that “these centers, with their current number of 262 centers, are concerned with the citizens’ annual periodic examinations (sound images and radiographs), and they guarantee high-quality services such as family medicine, children, gynecology, obstetrics and dentistry, in addition to examinations and radiographs related to basic care that do not require a referral. the patient to the hospital.”
According to the health official, these centers impose a symbolic tariff ranging between 5 thousand and 18 thousand pounds for the examination, and their services include about 980,000 Lebanese citizens and 36,000 residents, and they provide more than 4 million various services for these.
Hamada continued: “These centers provide non-commercial chronic and non-chronic disease medicines, such as the pressure diabetes, coronary artery disease, psychiatric and mental diseases, and a hundred types of medicines and analgesics that treat other diseases approved by the Ministry of Health, such as intestinal diseases, children’s diseases, andskin diseases“.
Hamada wished the citizen “to go to the nearest care center to register his personal data, then conduct an examination with the center’s doctor, on the basis of which a file will be opened for the person concerned, and the medicines he needs to obtain them are determined for free.”
“People with chronic diseases especially benefit because they are guaranteed access to their medication and to continuous health monitoring, regardless of their nationality,” she said.
With regard to vaccinations for children, she pointed out that “the care centers provide basic vaccines for free through UNICEF, according to the specifications of the World Health Organization and the support of the European Union, for diseases such as polio, rubella and others.”