Latvian Trade Union of Health and Social Care Workers (LVSADA) management has plans to request from the Latvian government the allocation of at least 140 million euros in additional funding for the healthcare sector by the 1st of July 2023, as confirmed by LVSADA work coordinator Inga Rudzīte.
The trade union has plans to meet with PM Krišjānis Kariņš on the 18th of May. During this meeting it is planned to discuss the situation in the healthcare sector and possible solutions.
On the 16th of May the board of LVSADA approved its positions for talks with the prime minister.
The board has decided to ask the government to allocate an additional 140 million euros to help finance the healthcare sector’s base functions.
On top of that, LVSADA plans to ask the government to provide 310 million euros next year.
Multiple organisations representing patients and medical workers in Latvia had previously presented various governments similar requests. They had also sent open letters to various high-ranking officials, asking them to fulfil their promises given in relation to funding for the country’s healthcare sector.
The organisation invites Saeima and government representatives to immediately start looking for solutions
to ensure this year’s healthcare costs in the state budget reach 12% of the budget’s total expenditures.
This means allocation an additional 140 million euros.
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