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A Syrian child stands above his family tent at a refugee camp in the town of Bar Elias, in Bekaa Valley, Lebano, June 13, 2023. /CFP
Lebanese caretaker Health Minister Firas Abiad on Thursday called for increased international support for the country's health system to help it meet the growing needs of citizens and refugees.
"The international community needs to assume its role in providing health care by supporting our national health system so that it can respond to the growing needs of everyone, starting from citizens to the displaced and refugees residing in Lebanon," Abiad was quoted by the National News Agency as saying.
The minister made the remarks during the Third Global Consultation on the Health of Refugees and Migrants, hosted by the government of Morocco in Rabat.
"Lebanon has not failed to provide health services to foreign residents on its land... at a time when our country is facing great challenges and successive, prolonged crises without receiving from the international community an equivalent amount of support for its health system," Abiad noted.
According to statistics released by the Lebanese government, around 2 million Syrian refugees are living in Lebanon, a country with a population of more than 5.5 million. The UN Refugee Agency reported that Lebanon hosts the largest number of refugees per capita and per square km in the world.
For Lebanon, the cost of hosting such a large number of Syrian refugees is estimated to be around $6 billion per year now, compared to $3 billion assessed by the World Bank in 2013, Foreign Minister Abdallah Bou Habib said in early May.
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