Over the past few years, more and more young doctors choose to work in the countryside after completing their internship, Ilze Grope, the dean of the Rīga Stradiņš University told LTV April 18.
Health Minister Anda Čakša has returned from childcare leave and says the ongoing healthcare reform in the country is going well, she told LTV in an interview on April 3.
A work group of Health Ministry officials, hospital employees, and patients' organizations wants to make Latvia's 'yes unless' organ donation system more clear, reports LTV.
A January 30 charity concert with the participation of a pleiade of Latvian music stars has raised €110,000 for cancer patients.
Last week the number of flu patients in Latvia’s southeastern Daugavpils region has reached the epidemic threshold, therefore the flu epidemics has been declared in Latvia starting from January 30, The Center for Disease Prevention and Control (SPKC) reported.
A total of 35 persons have died from exposure to the cold from October 1 to January 15, LETA was informed by the State Forensic Medical Center.
On January 16 the National Health Service IT system and the 'e-health' system used by doctors to write prescriptions and sick leaves came under cyber attack, the Health Ministry told LSM's Latvian-language service.
The 'e-health' project may lose EU funding granted to it as it may not be implemented as per the project requirements by the deadline of March 2021.
Five cases of measles were confirmed in Latvia at the end of last year, gut the Center for Disease Prevention and Control is not expecting a major measles outbreak, Jurijs Perevoscikovs, the head of the health authority’s department for the prevention of infectious diseases, told LETA on January 12.
Four cases of measles have been discovered in Latvia, the first in two and a half years, reported Latvian Television January 3.
Family physicians reported numerous problems January 2 due to failures in the electronic health system, Latvian Family Physicians Association's President Sarmite Veide told the LETA news service.
Additional financing of €113.4 million has been earmarked for further health care reforms in Latvia next year from the budget deficit increase approved by the European Commission, according to the Latvian Health Ministry report on the health care reforms planned in 2018.Additional financing of €113.4 million has been earmarked for further health care reforms in Latvia next year from the budget deficit increase approved by the European Commission, according to the Latvian Health Ministry report on the health care reforms planned in 2018.
Saeima passed the Healthcare Financing Law in the final reading on December 14, paving the way for the launch of a state mandatory health insurance system.
The Latvian Association of Family Physicians has decided to end a work to rule that began in July this year and has made new demands to the Health Ministry, warning that they may resume their action if the demands are not met, reported LETA December 1.
Also last year Latvia reported the highest number of new AIDS cases in the EU and the European Economic Area (EEA), but the situation has slightly improved from 2015, said Inga Upmace, the board chairwoman of the Baltic HIV Association.
On November 30 the Latvian parliament passed the new healthcare bill in the second, non-final reading. The bill proposes that people paying social security taxes will have full access to public healthcare.
In contrast to a recent report from the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) that had Latvia as a top reforming member state, the latest report from the organization has Latvia at the other end of the scale when it comes to life expectancy in general and fruit eating in particular.
Reports by Latvian journalists exposing sometimes brutal and often degrading or careless treatment of the residents of Latvia's children's homes have been some of the most frequent headlines during 2017.
The Latvian Association of Family Physicians is not convinced that the e-health (E-veselība) system will be ready for use starting from January 1, the association’s president Sarmite Veide told LETA November 3.
The board of the Latvian Association of Family Physicians on October 26 decided to continue a limited strike, LETA learned from the association.
Next year, salaries of physicians and specialists working in inpatient care will increase close to 80%, from €859 to €1,547 a month, according to the Health Ministry's information.
A series of exchanges between a representative of a Riga-based cancer therapy center and a U.S. cancer surgeon has been published online.
Latvia's State Food and Veterinary Service (PVD) said October 2 it had lifted restrictions on 'Dogo' brand dogfood, claiming that a foul-up in a Danish laboratory was responsible for earlier results suggesting it was potentially unsafe.
The Latvian government will cover the costs for contraceptives for women exposed to social exclusion risks, according to the Mother and Child Health Improvement Plan for 2018-2020 prepared by the Health Ministry.
Health Minister Anda Caksa has promised to get critics and supporters of the controversial claimed cancer treatment 'Rigvir' around a table to debate their differences and establish what claims to clinical effectiveness the treatment possesses.
Two adolescents were hospitalized on September 20 after complaining of illness, perhaps tied to stink in the Vecmīlgrāvis neighborhood near Riga Free Port.
Many Latvians collect at least some of their drinking water direct from natural springs, and ascribe all sorts of curative and health-giving powers to it. But an investigation by LTV's Aizliegtais paņēmiens (Forbidden methods) suggests that faith in natural purity may be misplaced in some instances.
Latvia's Health Ministry has defended having a controversial claimed treatment for cancer on its official list of medicines, despite expressions of doubt about its effectiveness and clinical validity from oncologists, the De Facto investigative new show reported September 3.
Agriculture Minister Janis Duklavs was under renewed pressure August 18, this time not because of his role in the scandalous 'Oligarch conversations' but because of dog food.
The first draft of a new law on healthcare financing will be produced by the meeting of the National Trilateral Cooperation Council planned in late August, Latvian Prime Minister Maris Kucinskis (Greens and Farmers Union) told the press after a meeting of ruling coalition parties on Monday.