“The proportion of the collected taxes that goes to health care in Latvia is much lower than the average in the European Union and also noticeably lower than in Lithuania and Estonia,” Valdis Keris, chairman of the Health and Social Care Workers’ Union, told the TV24 program “Press Club”. .
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“Unfortunately, this leads to both long queues at doctors and a large number of premature preventable deaths. Due to insufficient funding, we are losing about 4,000 people who could have been saved if there had been adequate funding, according to data from the OECD and the European Commission,” Keris admits.
He points out that if financing of the health sector had been a real priority of the government in Latvia in 2000, there would be 40,000 more working-age residents and GDP would be 4% higher.
Keris says that a serious package was created in 2022, which gathers information on how health care looks like in the country now, how to improve the situation, how much money is needed. This plan was created over three years.
Kariņš was introduced to these documents and signed the health industry plan for 2021-2027. We appealed to the National Audit Office that a compliance audit should be carried out to see how the actual actions of the officials are in accordance with the nature of regulatory enactments, policy planning documents, good international practice in a specific case regarding health sector funding planning. Well then, let’s see!”
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