Parliament’s Finance and Budget Committee approved on Monday the remaining items of the law proposal on the health card, which would provide health coverage for all the Lebanese people.
The draft-law would be referred to Parliament for approval.
The head of the committee, MP Ibrahim Kenaan, said following Monday’s meeting: “The biometric card will include the health history of every citizen, which would save a lot of money and will be sponsored by the Ministry of Health, with the possibility to cover all the segments of the Lebanese people in the future.”
“The health card is now in the hands of Parliament, and I hope it will be one of the legislation priorities because it affects every Lebanese and every home,” he added.
He emphasized that squandering in the health sector was the result of “politics and chaos.”
“We want the health card project to be the first medical and national project approved by Parliament,” he stressed.
Parliamentary committees have been studying for several years the health card bill, which provides health coverage for all the Lebanese.
The project was initiated by the ministry of health in 2010.
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