Identity
arcenciel has implemented a quality and diversified health service to grant care to people who need it most. The health program tries, as much as possible, to ensure every Lebanese, foreign or refugee person living in Lebanon and not benefiting from any medical coverage, the chance to receive treatment with dignity.
Mission
- To implement a diversified quality health service, to create a patient orientation system toward external services if necessary…
- To help vulnerable and marginalized people get access to better quality care for those suffering from sensorimotor deficiency, a chronic illness, a handicap or a mental illness.
Immediate objectives
- To ensure care in preventive medicine (risks of illnesses and contagion, malformations…)
- By access to medical services (consultations, hospitalization, medicine…)
Ultimate objective
- To enable people excluded from the system to benefit from social coverage
- To enable other people to access sufficient care through dispensaries, a small hospital offering medical and paramedical care, as well as the mental health care that users need.
- To solicit the free and disinterested participation of the medical community, and to use the arcenciel volunteering cell and its doctor friends network, who, out of friendship, would ensure a few free consultation hours every week.
Target population
Any person suffering from deficiency, a chronic illness or a mental illness and with no social coverage.
Context
Lebanon has insufficient and inefficient social security coverage. A large part of the population is excluded from it: agricultural workers, immigrants, craft workers, senior citizens, retirees who have not contributed to a mutual insurance before their retirement and others. The health program tries to overcome this deficit. It therefore rests on three pillars:
- Clinics that provide medical services for the poor
- A home hospitalization program
- The impulse of a public project should ensure the legal structure as well as the financial coverage of such services by the Ministry of Health, pursuant to the medical aspect of law 220/200.