Lithuanian Health Minister Aurelijus Veryga says it is regrettable that President Dalia Grybauskaitė did not make her comments on the planned overhaul of health care facilities before vetoing the legislative package.
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The Lithuanian parliament has approved an overhaul of health facilities that gives the health minister the right to decide on the network of such facilities.
The Lithuanian parliament has made it legal for professional midwives to attend to home births when there is no threat to the health of the mother and the newborn baby.
The hospital network in Lithuania needs an overhaul as many beds remain empty and others are occupied unnecessarily. Besides, services in some hospital are unsafe, Health Minister Aurelijus Veryga says.
The Seimas of Lithuania is starting discussions on legalizing home births.
Lithuania's government intends to increase the number of the brigades of the emergency medical service as one of the innovations envisaged in the package of structural reforms presented by the government on Monday.
Lithuania's Parliamentary Speaker Viktoras Pranckietis doubts the possibility to initiate a no-confidence vote in Agriculture Minister Bronius Markauskas amid criticism of his family's farming on another person's land.
Lithuanian Health Minister Aurelijus Veryga says that medical professionals could be trained to work under extreme or wartime conditions during their higher education studies.
Politicians of the Lithuanian government and parliament will Thursday discuss of how the country's health system should operate in case of war.
Some 5,000 people gathered outside the Lithuanian parliament in Vilnius on Thursday afternoon to express discontent with the failed parliamentary vote to impeach MP Mindaugas Bastys and the performance of the ruling Lithuanian Farmers and Greens Union (EU).
Lithuania's Health Minister Aurelijus Veryga has suggested envisaging a duty for persons to decide on organ donation when applying for identification documents.
Lithuanian law-enforcement officials said on Wednesday they they were conducting an investigation into suspected large-scale corruption at Vilnius University Hospital Santaros Klinikos, one of Lithuania's major hospitals.
Some 552,000 people in Lithuania were last year screened for cancer under state-financed prevention and early detection programs, Health Minister Aurelijus Veryga said on Friday.
Gintarė Šakalytė, Lithuania's deputy health minister in charge of personal healthcare matters and EU investment projects, is stepping down.
Sugar tax is not planned in Lithuania for now, as the content of sugar in products should be reduced through agreements with manufacturers, Health Minister Aurelijus Veryga says.