{"id":45028,"date":"2019-10-05T11:02:47","date_gmt":"2019-10-05T03:02:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=45028"},"modified":"2019-10-05T11:10:49","modified_gmt":"2019-10-05T03:10:49","slug":"cancer-patients-in-lebanon-on-the-rise-health-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=45028","title":{"rendered":"Cancer Patients In Lebanon On The Rise: Health Minister"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>BEIRUT, Oct 5 (NNN-NNA) &#8211; Lebanese Health Minister, Jamil Jabak, said, the number of cancer patients in Lebanon has increased by threefold in the past 15 years due to pollution, local media reported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;We hope that officials work hard on reducing the risks of getting exposed to cancer, by dealing properly with pollution,&#8221; Jabak was quoted as saying.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jabak said that, his ministry decided to support the Children&#8217;s Cancer Centre directly, by allocating more money for this purpose in the 2019 state budget.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;We will allocate a higher amount in the 2020 state budget,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The most common reasons for cancer in Lebanon are air pollution, waste burning, and water contamination.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The World Health Organisation estimated that over 17,000 new cancer cases were discovered in Lebanon in 2018.&#8211; NNN-NNA  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BEIRUT, Oct 5 (NNN-NNA) &#8211; Lebanese Health Minister, Jamil Jabak, said, the number of cancer patients in Lebanon has increased by threefold in the past 15 years due to pollution, local media reported. &#8220;We hope that officials work hard on reducing the risks of getting exposed to cancer, by dealing properly with pollution,&#8221; Jabak was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":45035,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[198,217],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45028"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45028"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45028\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/45035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}