{"id":134202,"date":"2025-11-14T06:00:18","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T06:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/134202\/"},"modified":"2025-11-14T06:00:18","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T06:00:18","slug":"public-hospitals-in-japan-face-severe-financial-strain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/134202\/","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":134203,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[134,527,3274,5008,3193,33716,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-134202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-health","tag-healthcare","tag-hospitals","tag-local-government","tag-medicine","tag-national-health-care","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134202\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/134203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}