Deciding to cut budgets is a difficult choice to make and may raise ethical issues. When faced with such a fact of life one needs to prioritise allocation of resources in a just way.
WHY TO CUT?
Cuts in budgets are inevitable in a world where the population increases and productivity does not match demands, and/or we mismanage available resources. In Lebanon these three factors have a bearing on the health of the majority of the Lebanese people. In a meeting between the Lebanese Ministers of Health and Finance on 31 December 2009, the former did not get the budget he asked for (do not misunderstand me; he did not …