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Wednesday, 24.04.2024, 00:04
73% of Latvia`s residents believe that allocating more funding for healthcare should be a priority - survey
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He explained that residents being interviewed were offered
several different areas to choose from, such as science, environmental
protection, rural development and others. 73% of respondents opted for
healthcare when assessing which area should receive additional funding.
Retirement pensions placed second with 37.3%, and education was the third with
about 35%.
Kaktins also said that 92.9% of respondents indicated that
the healthcare budget should be increased. Only 4.8% of respondents said that
healthcare financing should not be raised.
Respondents were also asked to evaluate the availability of
healthcare services, and almost half considered it to be poor. 14.1% of
respondents consider the accessibility of healthcare services very poor, 31.4%
- poor, and 42% - mediocre. Only 7.3% of respondents said that access to
healthcare services was good and 2.7% said it was excellent.
Almost 78.9% of respondents mentioned long lines of patients
as the most common obstacle limiting access to healthcare services. 72.3% said
it was high prices for services, 58.6% - lack of medical staff, 30.6% - low
quality of services, while 1.6% said they had not encountered any obstacles.
SKDS interviewed 1,016 randomly selected respondents ages 18
to 75 for the survey this past August.
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