Healthcare

Lithuania's Healthcare Minister Juras Požela remains in Vilnius University's Santariškės Clinic with acute pancreatitis. Doctors say his condition is serious, but stable.

Lithuania's Healthcare Minister Juras Požela, who has been hospitalized with acute pancreatitis, is treated in intensive care and his condition is "serious", DELFI reports. To read this article, try a €5.99 monthly subscription by clicking here.

If Lithuania introduces a ban on abortion, women will still be able to terminate pregnancy in another EU country and the procedure will have to be covered by their Lithuanian health insurance, says Healthcare Minister Juras Požela.

Official figures show that Lithuanian lawmakers have been approached by a small number of lobbyists over the last year but experts say the official numbers are just the tip of the iceberg, with actual extent of unofficial lobbying in the Lithuanian parliament much bigger.

The Lithuanian government has endorsed an action plan for 2016 to reduce alcohol consumption in the country.

Lithuanian citizens and foreigners must pay for the compulsory health insurance (PSD) only if they are permanently residing in Lithuania, said Lithuania’s State Tax Inspectorate (VMI).

Lithuania's new Healthcare Minister Juras Požėla says that while patients should not be made to pay for services at the country's public healthcare institutions, global trends point to health services growing more expensive in the future.

Image navigation system has been used for the first time in surgery in the Baltics at a newly opened hybrid cardiac radiosurgery operating room at Vilnius University Santariškės Hospital on February 25-26.

With salaries ten times higher salaries than in Lithuania, free accommodation, a personal driver and schools arranged for children, Lithuanian doctors are increasingly being lured to Gulf States like the United Arab Emirates (UAE).

A medical team at Santariškės Hospital for the first time identified and operated on a very rare tumour which was found in a 25 year-old patient. There have been only a few such cases in the world.

Nuo išankstinio perspėjimo apie sumažėsiantį cukraus kiekį kraujyje sergantiems cukriniu diabetu ar asmeninių patarimų, ką valgyti ir kaip sportuoti, iki „smegenų“ robotui humanoidui.

Healthcare Minister Rimantė Šalaševičiūtė has been urged to step down for a "variety of reasons" that are not only to do with corruption in the healthcare system, says advisor to the Lithuanian president Mindaugas Lingė.

Suspicions have been brought against two staff members of the Eurovaistinė drug store network as part of an ongoing investigation into suspected corruption at Šiauliai Hospital.

Healthcare Minister Rimantė Šalaševičiūtė, who said last Friday she was stepping down over suspected corruption, will submit her letter of resignation after the prime minister comes back from holidays next week.

Healthcare Minister Rimantė Šalaševičiūtė has admitted she once gave a bribe to doctors. She made the comments while discussing small-scale corruption that is wide-spread in the country's healthcare system.

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