Most indicators of organ donation and transplantation in the first half of 2016 were even better than in the same period last year, the National Transplantation Bureau under the Ministry of Health announces. Moreover, the […]
After a ruling from the Supreme Administrative Court of Lithuania, the Ministry of Health will be forced to overturn its decree on mandatory vaccination for children in kindergarten.
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Beginning in autumn, anyone purchasing alcohol will have to show their ID to do so.
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On Saturday, the Lithuanian military announced that it would be preparing alternative dietary menus without meat, fish and dairy products. This decision was made after a survey of more than 1,300 conscripts, 29 of whom expressed an interest in alternative diets. […]
Minister of Health Juras Požėla discussed some of the changes to alcohol laws that the Ministry of Health will propose to combat alcoholism in Lithuania. […]
Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė on Thursday appointed Juras Požela of the Social Democratic Party as the country’s new health minister. […]
Alcolock system and rehabilitation program for drunk drivers will soon be introduced in Lithuania. The road traffic safety draft is being prepared by the Communications Ministry together with the Ministry of Interior and the Road and Transport Research Institute specialists. […]
Lithuania sent over 200,000 packages of medication to Ukraine on Friday in response to a request by the Ukrainian Ministry of Health. […]
Lithuania’s Ministry of Health is to draft an action plan for a concerted effort to fight alcoholism within less than a month, the government decided during a cabinet meeting on Monday. […]
Minister of Health Rimantė Šalaševičiūtė, who is currently visiting China, said that the country’s representatives are interested in building pharmaceutical factories in Lithuania and would like to open a traditional Chinese medicine centre as well. […]
If the Ministry of Health has its way, Lithuanian schoolchildren in grades 5-12 will once again hold physical education tests that would evaluate their balance, flexibility, endurance, cardiac health and general physical health. Representatives at the ministry believe that this would help the ministry focus more on physical education, as the ministry currently does not have a centralized database on children’s physical health and activity in Lithuania. […]
Compulsory treatment for alcoholism may begin as June of this year, if the laws prepare by the Ministry of Health are approved by the Seimas in its spring session. The drafting of these laws was prompted in part by tragic events in Lithuania, including the tragedies in Kražiai and Kėdainiai. […]
At the beginning of 2016, an order came into effect at the Ministry of Health that bars children that have not been vaccinated from polio, measles or rubella from being enrolled in kindergarten. Now, the Lithuanian courts will investigate whether this order, issued by former Minister of Health Vytenis Andriukaitis, was legal. […]
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