Healthcare

With the extent of alcoholism and the damage done by intoxicated persons failing to decrease in Lithuania the government is launching a new initiative in alcohol prevention by establishing the National Public Health Promotion Foundation.

Lithuanian Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius says that he supports the proposal of introducing mandatory treatment of alcoholism in the country and believes that preparations for the programme could take around a year.

Vice President of the European Commission and Commissioner for the Digital Single Market Andrus Ansip encourages Lithuania to improve the accessibility of electronic health services for citizens, especially as regards electronic prescriptions.

Statistics Lithuania has published demographic data on the occasion of the Day of Older Persons. It has transpired that the number of older people is on the rise in the country.

Dental clinics in Lithuania reported an increase in patients from Britain getting part of the treatment costs reimbursed by the NHS. The British National Health Service (NHS) provides healthcare of which the vast majority are free at the point of use for people legally resident in the United Kingdom...

Bills necessary for the introduction of the electronic health system have been put before the Seimas of Lithuania on Thursday, with e-prescriptions as one of the proposed novelties.

Half of Lithuanians trust the country's healthcare system, a poll carried out by joint Lithuanian-British market research and public opinion poll company Baltijos Tyrimai has revealed.

When it comes to cross-border healthcare, for countries like Lithuania the vision was to offer Western countries shorter waiting times and significant reductions in treatment costs.

The European Commission has requested Lithuania to transpose provisions of EU directives on quality and safety standards for medical procedures involving reproductive cells.

Lithuania's medical institutions intend to finish the introduction of an e-health system by the end of this year, allowing medical personnel to remotely access patients' medical records, make electronic prescriptions and share medical information.

The European Commission recommends that Lithuania, one of the fastest ageing nations in the EU, should invest money in improving people's health, as well as broaden its tax base and improve tax compliance.

European Commissioner for Health and Food Safety Vytenis Povilas Andriukaitis of Lithuania has undergone a surgical procedure in Vilnius.

Statistics Lithuania announced that Lithuanians visited doctors on average 8.1 times in 2013, while the total number of visits stood at 24 million.

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

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.

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.

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 Territo...

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 were diagnosed in Lithuania over the first ten months of 2014, as compared to 161 year-on-year.

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.