📰 2 sources 3 articles · 22 Oct 2026, 12:51 → 2 hours ago

Lebanon's National Social Security Fund pays 564 billion lira in advances to hospitals and doctors

The director general of Lebanon's National Social Security Fund, Mohammad Karaki, announced the payment of 564 billion Lebanese lira in financial advances to contracted hospitals and doctors under three decisions, covering the cost of transactions for insured patients. The payment comes within hospital advances whose total since the start of the year has exceeded 5,760 billion lira, to which additional amounts for kidney dialysis costs are added.

📍 Where things stand: The payment has been announced and allocated to hospitals and doctors; no further data on implementation dates or other details has been issued.

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22 Oct 2026, 12:51 The director general of the National Social Security Fund, Karaki, announced that the fund paid 564 billion lira to hospitals and doctors, in a step related to settling the dues of the hospital and medical health sector.
22 Oct 2026, 13:06 The "Lebanon Debate" channel published a report that Karaki was moving the hospitalization file through a payment described as large, aimed at easing the financial burden on patients, without further details on the measures, the parties involved or implementation dates.
22 Oct 2026, 13:13 The National Social Security Fund explained that the 564 billion lira payment was made under three decisions issued by director general Dr. Mohammad Karaki numbered 546, 547 and 548 dated 22 October 2026, to cover the cost of 7,855 transactions for insured patients.
22 Oct 2026, 13:13 The fund noted that the total it has paid since the start of the year in hospital advances reached about 5,760 billion lira, to which 1,193 billion lira for kidney dialysis costs are added.

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