Despite the difficult challenges facing the country, Dr. Muhammad Karki, Director General of the National Social Security Fund, continues his tireless pursuit of strengthening the foundations of health stability. It focuses its efforts on providing the necessary funds to cover health services for beneficiaries, whether medical or pharmaceutical, in addition to taking unconventional steps to ensure that the Fund continues to provide its services, especially to the displaced.
In this context, and after issuing the necessary instructions to strengthen the financial readiness of the offices, Karaki issued a set of decisions bearing the numbers 145, 158, 164 and 165, requiring that some offices be granted exceptional financial advances worth 8,200 billion Lebanese pounds, with the aim of enabling them to continue providing their services to beneficiaries, especially optional subscribers.
As for the health side, after disbursing the last payment about two weeks ago, on 3/16/2026, Karaki issued Resolution No. 163, requiring a new payment to be paid to hospitals and doctors contracting with the Fund worth 157 billion Lebanese pounds, in exchange for 2,556 hospital treatments from which the beneficiaries had previously benefited and which had been completed in accordance with the rules.
Thus, the total amount paid by the Fund to hospitals and doctors since the beginning of the year 2026 has reached 909 billion Lebanese pounds, in a step that reflects the administration’s continued adoption of a financial policy aimed at supporting the hospital sector and ensuring that beneficiaries receive good and safe health services, despite the current exceptional circumstances.
