The Council of the Hospital Syndicate in Lebanon held a meeting headed by Captain Professor Pierre Yared and attended by members. The attendees focused on the worsening financial pressures that the sector is suffering from, which it was already complaining about before the recent war. Thanks to its medical, nursing and administrative teams, it is always on the front lines during trials and tribulations as a paramedic, therapist, doctor and provider of all types of health services. However, today it has become one of the most affected, exhausting all means available to it in order to continue its continuity, not to close some of its departments and to secure the salaries of all its employees who have never shied away from their duties in dangerous security conditions and harsh living conditions. Since the Hospital Syndicate in Lebanon is aware of the importance of the stage that Lebanon is going through, and is keen on the role assigned to the sector as a cornerstone of the national economy, and as a lever for growth by providing thousands of direct and indirect job opportunities, as well as attracting investments and supporting hospital tourism that allows the treasury to be supplied with foreign currencies, without neglecting its essential role in the field of health security and the stability of the workforce for production in other sectors, and to overcome this current deteriorating reality, the Council issued a statement in which it said: “First: We call on all officials to give priority to the hospital sector as it is the primary line of defense to protect the lives of individuals, ensure the health of society, and confront emergencies, crises, and epidemics with speed and high efficiency that other sectors may not be able to do. Second: Requesting all guaranteeing bodies to accelerate the pace of paying the receivables they owe to hospitals for more than 8 months. Its persistence in delaying reflects a scarcity of cash flow for hospitals, which are already complaining of the burden of the high rate of operational costs ranging between 30 and 40 percent, while they continue to pay their expenses monthly without any delay, starting with employee wages, passing through the cost of energy bills, all the way to the bills of suppliers who are not given more than a month to pay. All of this, in the absence of any bank facilities or loans, which increases financial pressures that exceed the hospitals’ ability to bear and cope with. Third: It is necessary for all guaranteeing bodies to commit to accelerating the process of amending hospital tariffs, which remain unfair, outweighed by the value of the real and actual cost many times over for the contributions on a daily basis, knowing that to date they have not been equivalent to what they were before the year 2019. Fourth: We hope that the Minister of Finance and all those concerned will allocate sufficient funds for the health and hospital affairs in the 2027 budget and approve the notable increases in the hospitalization section of all guarantor bodies in a way that meets the high demand on the one hand, and keeps pace with the continuing cost rising globally and locally on the other hand, especially since this increase is a necessary and urgent measure, without which hospitals will not be able to continue their services and maintain the high level of medical care that it provides. Lebanon. Fifth: The union hopes that all concerned will respond quickly to its just demands, so that in order to maintain the progress of its contributions and secure the livelihood of its workers and their families, it will not be forced to burden the patient with the differences that are not paid by the guaranteeing bodies.