The healthcare system in Lebanon is fragmented, exclusionary, and highly privatised.
Although there are multiple social protection schemes offering access to different healthcare benefits, some segments of the population, including unemployed, elderly, workers in the informal sector, migrants workers, and refugees have limited and unequal access to healthcare benefits and coverage. 

In a context of acute socio-economic crisis in the country, as well as the Covid19 pandemic, these structural and inherent challenges of the healthcare sector have been further exposed and have reiterated the importance of establishing a universal and inclusive healthcare system in Lebanon.

Read these visuals for an overview of the right to health in Lebanon.