More than Half of Public Institutions Will Stop Operating After a Year!

Amid a deep local divide and regional and international distractions, financial and living conditions continue to deteriorate. More than half of the public administration institutions are unable to sustain operations for over a year, according to a study conducted by the Basel Flayhan Institute for Financial and Economic Studies in collaboration with UNICEF. The director of the institute, Lama Mebayed, revealed that one in five Lebanese children has been deprived of education, while healthcare costs have risen, and the quality of hospital services has declined, with hospital treatment costs increasing fourteenfold. Mebayed explained that a national system is collapsing on the heads of citizens due to a lack of funding, warning of the urgent need to establish a national rescue plan for the public sector, and emphasizing that any increase in the minimum wage would lead to inflation in the current situation.