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Friday, 29.03.2024, 05:37
Belevics names launch of new healthcare funding scheme, e-health system as top priorities in Latvia
"A new healthcare funding scheme has to be developed and launched by Latvia's centenary. For now, it does not matter whether it will be mandatory health insurance or it will have a different name. What does matter is the necessity to attract significantly larger funding for healthcare," Belevics said.
The health minister also underlined the necessity to develop the so called e-health system. "The implementation of e-health is not only a task, but also a means enabling us to shape the new healthcare funding system," the minister said.
Besides these two major goals, there are also a number of smaller jobs Belevics intends to tackle in Latvia's new government under the leadership of Prime Minister Maris Kucinskis (Greens/Farmers).
They include taking over outsourced services at the Emergency Medical Service, ensuring government-paid treatment for hepatitis C patients, completing Pauls Stradins Clinical University Hospital's expansion project and raising medics' wages by 3-10%.
The Kucinskis-led Cabinet, which Saeima approved at an extraordinary session on Thursday, has been formed by the three existing coalition partners: Union of Greens and Farmers, Unity and National Alliance. Belevics is staying on as health minister in the new government.