Promoting Access to Essential Health Care Services for Syrian Refugees in Lebanon

Abstract

Dialogue participants discussed the overall framing of the issue of access of Syrian refugees to basic healthcare services. Few participants pointed out the need to expand from caring only about basic services to offering secondary and tertiary care given the long term nature of the crisis and the increasing expectations of refugees. Participants highlighted the need to be more specific concerning the number of Syrians that lacked basic care and what was meant by basic care and asked about the evidence behind the statement in the briefing note “hundreds of thousands of Syrian refugees deprived from basic health care services”.