Society
Lithuania considers legalizing medical abortion
Lithuania’s Health Ministry has drafted a new bill on termination of pregnancy, which suggests allowing medication-induced abortion. […]
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Politics
Lithuanian health minister opposes euthanasia bill
Euthanasia cannot be legalized in Lithuania at the moment, the country’s Social Democratic Health Minister Rimantė Šalaševičiūtė says. […]
Politics
Lithuania’s new healthcare minister to suspend her predecessor’s decrees
Some of the decrees signed by the former Minister of Health Vytenis Povilas Andriukaitis will be suspended, says new Minister of Health Rimantė Šalaševičiūtė. […]
Politics
New healthcare minister pledges to not alienate private institutions
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. […]
Politics
Outgoing Minister Andriukaitis does not expect changes in Lithuania’s Health Ministry
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. […]
Politics
MP Šalaševičiūtė proposed as Lithuanian minister of healthcare
The ruling Lithuanian Social Democratic Party will propose MP Rimantė Šalaševičiūtė as minister of healthcare. […]