Ministry of Public Health (Lebanon)
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The Ministry of Public Health (Arabic: وزارة الصحّة العامة) is a ministry of the government of the Republic of Lebanon.[1][2] As of 2024[update], the Minister of Health is Firass Abiad.[3]
The ministry's Department of Primary Healthcare operates over 200 primary health care centres across Lebanon.[4][5] The ministry operates a network of 31 government-operated hospitals.[6]
Its headquarters are in Bir Hassan, in the Jnah neighborhood of the capital city Beirut.[1][7]
Health ministers
[edit]Recent
[edit]- Firass Abiad (September 2021 – )[8]
- Hamad Hasan (21 January 2020 – 10 September 2021)
- Jamil Jabak (30 January 2019 – 21 January 2020)
- Ghassan Hasbani (18 December 2016 – 31 January 2019)
- Wael Abou Faour (15 February 2014 – 18 December 2016)
Previous
[edit]- Majid Arslan (1943–1946, 1954, 1956, 1974–1975)
- Khatchig Babikian (1969)
- Charles Helou (1954–1955)
- Edgar Maalouf
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Partner - Ministry of Public Health Lebanon". data.unhcr.org. Retrieved 2024-09-23.
- ^ "Ministry of Public Health (Lebanon) | GHDx". ghdx.healthdata.org. Retrieved 2024-09-23.
- ^ Inskeep, Steve (September 20, 2024). "Lebanese health minister discusses his country's response to pager explosions". NPR. Retrieved 23 September 2024.
- ^ emhj. "The primary healthcare network in Lebanon: a national facility assessment". World Health Organization - Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean. Retrieved 2024-09-24.
- ^ "Lebanon Primary Health Care Network in Urgent Need of Fuel Support (March 2022) - Lebanon | ReliefWeb". reliefweb.int. 2022-03-07. Retrieved 2024-09-24.
- ^ "Health Facility Locator". www.moph.gov.lb. Retrieved 2024-09-24.
- ^ "Contact us". www.moph.gov.lb. Retrieved 2024-09-24.
- ^ "Line-Up of Najib Miqati's Government Announced". m.naharnet.com. Retrieved 2024-09-24.