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According to them, the artificial contraposition between the private and public medicine is misleading the patients and is causing unnecessary tension.

According to the representatives of the private medicine and the patients' organizations, the tension was not reduced after the decision of the Constitutional Court (KT) by which the urgent medical aid was distinguished from other medical aid services.

Chair of the Council of Representatives of Patients' Organisations of Lithuania Vida Augustiniene said that, after the KT decision, the main problem remained the same. Augustiniene highlighted that the problems were related to the funding of those medical services that were used by the majority of the patients and that were not included in the notion of the urgent medical aid.

"The current legal regulation does not provide for the extent to which such services have to be paid for and from what sources. The budget allocated for the healthcare system is very "holey" and the state will not manage to secure the qualitative and absolutely free of charge medicine for all. Therefore, the patient has to have the right to choose the service he or she wants," said Augustiniene.

According to the representatives of the private medicine, they faced the difficulties to organize the work of the institutions and to plan the development of them under the current conditions.