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Girls in Lithuania to be vaccinated against HPV

January 26, 2015 BNS 0

Lithuania plans to start free vaccination for girls against the human papilloma virus which is the main cause of cervical cancer. […]

Lithuania’s ruling coalition talks education and healthcare reforms

January 12, 2015 ELTA EN 0

In 2015, Lithuania’s ruling coalition is planning reforms in the areas of science and education as well as healthcare areas, according to Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius. […]

Suicide Prevention Centre opens in Lithuania

January 3, 2015 ELTA EN 0

The Suicide Prevention Centre has started operations in Lithuania. The Centre was established at the initiative of the Health Ministry and is housed at the State Mental Health Centre in Vilnius. […]

Most Lithuanians opt for local health services

December 29, 2014 ELTA EN 0

For over a year Lithuanians have been able to seek for medical treatment abroad. Nonetheless, people choose to be treated in Lithuania or in neighbouring countries offering similar prices. In one year and two months 53 people sought treatment abroad and submitted compensation applications to Territorial Health Insurance Funds (TLK). […]

Ukrainian doctors want to come to work in Lithuania

December 5, 2014 BNS 0

Seven doctors who lost normal working conditions in the war-torn eastern Ukrainian city of Donetsk want to come to Lithuania and work in the northern district of Akmenė, the Lietuvos Žinios daily reports. […]

113 new HIV cases in Lithuania this year

December 1, 2014 BNS 0

113 new HIV cases were diagnosed in Lithuania over the first ten months of 2014, as compared to 161 year-on-year. […]

Lithuania sets up Ebola coordination team

November 19, 2014 BNS 0

Lithuania’s Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius has set up a task force that would coordinate efforts to manage a possible outbreak of the Ebola virus, if needed. […]

7 of 10 Lithuanians avoid health check-ups

November 8, 2014 ELTA EN 0

Most Lithuanians (68.5 percent) go to see a doctor only when they are seriously ill. 68 percent of people aged 15-19, 70 percent aged 30-39, and 61 percent aged 60-74 said they have a doctor’s appointment only if seriously ill. The data comes from TNS Atlas survey carried out by market research company TNS LT. […]

Auditors say Lithuania’s statutory officers don’t have access to adequate healthcare

October 27, 2014 ELTA EN 0

In Lithuania, statutory officers are covered by compulsory health insurance; therefore, like the rest of the population, they are entitled to free healthcare services paid by the Compulsory Health Insurance Fund (CHIF) in the healthcare facility of their choice. […]

Lithuania’s health laboratory ready to test Ebola

October 25, 2014 BNS 0

Lithuania’s National Public Health Surveillance Laboratory (NPHSL) is ready diagnose Ebola following a training event held earlier this week, Algirdas Griškevičius, head of the NPHSL’s Clinical Testing Department, said on Friday. […]

False Ebola alarm in Lithuania as country’s medics briefed about dealing with the virus

September 17, 2014 BNS 0

An Ebola virus case was suspected in Lithuania but the guess was dismissed, Vice-Minister of Healthcare Erikas Mačiūnas said on Wednesday. […]

New healthcare minister pledges to not alienate private institutions

July 29, 2014 ELTA EN 0

The new Minister of Health Rimantė Šalaševičiūtė says that the government must not antagonize and set private and public healthcare one against the other, but rather it should establish a clear procedure for providing services in private healthcare institutions. […]

Lithuanian pharmacists may be allowed to engage in disease prevention

July 21, 2014 ELTA EN 0

A draft law proposing to specify the definition of pharmaceutical activities by including pharmaceutical care in its definition has been proposed by MP Dangutė Mikutienė. […]

Outgoing Minister Andriukaitis does not expect changes in Lithuania’s Health Ministry

July 17, 2014 ELTA EN 0

On Thursday the mandate of Health Minister Vytenis Povilas Andriukaitis ends and he is replaced by Rimantė Šalaševičiūtė. Andriukaitis thinks that his successor, fellow social democrat, will not change the team and how the ministry is run. […]

After Nausėda meeting with Budrys, the opposition retorts to the candidate’s “cooling off “

November 22, 2024 0

Kęstutis Budrys, the President’s Senior Adviser, who has been nominated for the post of Minister of foreign affairs, does not say whether he first discussed the possibility of taking up the post with President Gitanas […]

“No need to mince words”: an assessment of what Trump’s victory means for Lithuania

November 6, 2024 0

“We can shout very loudly, but it won’t change the position of the American people,” says Professor Tomas Janeliūnas, as the winner of the United States of America’s (USA) presidential election, which will almost certainly […]

Another year in the sovereign history of Kazakhstan

October 24, 2024 0

Republic Day has been celebrated in Kazakhstan as the main national date since 2022, giving new life to the fundamental document on state sovereignty—the Declaration of October 25, 1990. The Republic is a modern form […]

In the assessment of NATO’s readiness for war with Russia, there is also a warning about the Baltic states: what is the Kremlin’s wild card?

October 23, 2024 0

According to Lrytas.lt, the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) faces a new geopolitical reality with the large-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. While the Alliance has begun responding to emerging threats, its readiness for […]

These parties will enter the Seimas for the third time in a row. How many votes did they lose, and how many did they gain?

October 15, 2024 0

As various parties emerge, disappear or reorganize themselves in the political space, the Lithuanian Social Democratic Party (LSDP), the Homeland Union-Lithuanian Christian Democrats (Homeland Union-Lithuanian Christian Democrats – TS-LKD) and the Liberal Movement are making […]