{"id":139815,"date":"2025-11-14T17:48:18","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T17:48:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/139815\/"},"modified":"2025-11-14T17:48:18","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T17:48:18","slug":"public-hospitals-in-japan-face-severe-financial-strain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/139815\/","title":{"rendered":"Public hospitals in Japan face severe financial strain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Public hospitals operated by local governments across Japan are facing increasingly severe financial pressure.<\/p>\n<p>Fiscal 2024 results compiled by the internal affairs ministry show a record combined ordinary loss of \u00a5395.2 billion ($2.56 billion), squeezed by higher personnel costs and rising prices. More than 80% of facilities posted red ink.<\/p>\n<p>As many of the hospitals provide essential but unprofitable services in depopulated areas, local governments and hospital operators are calling for stronger support to sustain regional health care systems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Public hospitals operated by local governments across Japan are facing increasingly severe financial pressure. Fiscal 2024 results compiled&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":139816,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[103,397,396,3267,61,60,26965,1357,28014],"class_list":["post-139815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-health","tag-health-care","tag-healthcare","tag-hospitals","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-local-government","tag-medicine","tag-national-health-care"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139815\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/139816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}