Ministry of Healthcare

Healthcare Minister Juras Požela is in hospital, the spokeswoman for Santariškės Clinics in Vilnius has confirmed. To read this article, try a €5.99 monthly subscription by clicking here.

A private kindergarten in Vilnius is the first pre-school education institution in Lithuania to offer a fully vegetarian option to its pupils.

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.

The Board of the Social Democratic Party of Lithuania decided on Monday to nominate Juras Požela, 33, for the position of healthcare minister, Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius, Social Democratic leader, told journalists after the meeting.

Finance Minister Rimantas Šadžius is stepping in as acting head of the Ministry of Healthcare until a replacement for Minister Rimantė Šalaševičiūtė is found. The prime minister has said he has two candidates in mind, but would not reveal the names before the end of February.

Three candidates are in the running to replace former Healthcare Minister Rimantė Šalaševičiūtė who stepped down from her position three weeks ago.

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.

Both the Lithuanian president and the prime minister said on Friday that Health Minister Rimantė Šalaševičiūtė of the Social Democrats should step down amid corruption suspicions. The minister said she would hand in a letter of resignation and wait for the prime minister's decision.

Lithuania's Minister of Healthcare Rimantė Šalaševičiūtė is being investigated for allegedly demanding bribes from hospitals in exchange for EU support, 15min.lt reports.

The Lithuanian government announced on Monday that it would scrap 1,290 positions in government agencies from April of next year.

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.

Lithuania's Health Minister Rimantė Šalaševičiūtė, of the Social Democratic Party, has suggested introducing fines for parents who do not vaccinate their children.

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.

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.

Deputy Health Minister Gediminas Černiauskas has decided to resign from his post.

Lithuanian deputy minister of healthcare Gediminas Černiauskas has been named in two stories of alleged corruption: for making decisions favouring a company he co-owns and for trying to secure a post for his party colleague.

Lithuania's National Public Health Surveillance Laboratory (NPHSL) is ready diagnose Ebola following a training event held earlier this week, Algirdas Griškevičius, head of the NPHSL's Clinical Testing Department, said on Friday.

The Lithuanian Government has approved the amendments to the Law on Public Health Monitoring that have been proposed by the Ministry of Healthcare. If the proposal finds support at the Seimas, the Ministry of Healthcare as well as its subordinate institutions will be authorised to process patients' ...