Healthcare

  • CORPORATE

Gulf states luring Lithuanian doctors with high salaries, perks

With salaries ten times higher salaries than in Lithuania, free accommodation, a personal driver and schools arranged for children, Lithuanian…

9 years ago
  • Society

Lithuanian doctors perform first surgery on rare tumour

A medical team at Santariškės Hospital for the first time identified and operated on a very rare tumour which was…

9 years ago
  • Politics

Healthcare minister failed to live up to expectations, president’s office says

Healthcare Minister Rimantė Šalaševičiūtė has been urged to step down for a "variety of reasons" that are not only to…

9 years ago
  • Economy

Major pharmacy retailer named in hospital corruption investigation

Suspicions have been brought against two staff members of the Eurovaistinė drug store network as part of an ongoing investigation…

9 years ago
  • Politics

Healthcare minister to resign when PM comes back from holidays

Healthcare Minister Rimantė Šalaševičiūtė, who said last Friday she was stepping down over suspected corruption, will submit her letter of…

9 years ago
  • Politics

Healthcare minister admits offering bribe to doctor

Healthcare Minister Rimantė Šalaševičiūtė has admitted she once gave a bribe to doctors. She made the comments while discussing small-scale…

9 years ago
  • Society

Over 100 flu patients hospitalized in Lithuania

Flu and upper respiratory infections are spreading fast in Lithuania, with over 100 people hospitalized with flu complications this week.…

9 years ago
  • Politics

New agency set up to tackle alcoholism in Lithuania

With the extent of alcoholism and the damage done by intoxicated persons failing to decrease in Lithuania the government is…

9 years ago
  • Politics

Lithuanian PM supports forced alcoholism treatment

Lithuanian Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius says that he supports the proposal of introducing mandatory treatment of alcoholism in the country…

9 years ago
  • Society

Lithuania should do more in e-health services, EC vice president says

Vice President of the European Commission and Commissioner for the Digital Single Market Andrus Ansip encourages Lithuania to improve the…

9 years ago
  • Society

Share of older people on the rise in Lithuania

Statistics Lithuania has published demographic data on the occasion of the Day of Older Persons. It has transpired that the…

9 years ago
  • Economy

British NHS dental patients start visiting Lithuania

Dental clinics in Lithuania reported an increase in patients from Britain getting part of the treatment costs reimbursed by the…

9 years ago
  • Politics

Bills on e-prescription put before Lithuanian parliament

Bills necessary for the introduction of the electronic health system have been put before the Seimas of Lithuania on Thursday,…

9 years ago
  • Society

Public trust in Lithuania’s healthcare system growing

Half of Lithuanians trust the country's healthcare system, a poll carried out by joint Lithuanian-British market research and public opinion…

9 years ago
  • Economy

Cross-border healthcare – a slow take up for Lithuania

When it comes to cross-border healthcare, for countries like Lithuania the vision was to offer Western countries shorter waiting times…

9 years ago
  • Politics

EC calls on Lithuania to transpose EU legislation on in-vitro fertilization

The European Commission has requested Lithuania to transpose provisions of EU directives on quality and safety standards for medical procedures…

9 years ago
  • Society

Lithuania to launch centralized system of patients’ medical records

Lithuania's medical institutions intend to finish the introduction of an e-health system by the end of this year, allowing medical…

10 years ago
  • Society

EU recommends that Lithuania spend more money on people’s health

The European Commission recommends that Lithuania, one of the fastest ageing nations in the EU, should invest money in improving…

10 years ago
  • Society

Lithuanian EC member Andriukaitis undergoes surgery in Vilnius

European Commissioner for Health and Food Safety Vytenis Povilas Andriukaitis of Lithuania has undergone a surgical procedure in Vilnius. [...]

10 years ago
  • Society

Lithuanians visit doctors 8 times per year

Statistics Lithuania announced that Lithuanians visited doctors on average 8.1 times in 2013, while the total number of visits stood…

10 years ago