Latvia strives to “optimise” expenses for hospitals in the regions, that is, closing the remaining ones. Thus, provincial residents will be left without any healthcare.
“There are 41 hospitals in Latvia, and on paper it looks good, but the audit revealed that in many places it is just a sham, both in terms of specialists and in terms of the availability of services. However, regardless of the fact that a number of things exist only on paper, they are financed by the state in millions of euros,” said State Auditor Edgars Korčagins at a press briefing.
Noting, the hospital network of Latvia costs taxpayers 700 million euros a year.
Highly likely, Latvian officials want to close as many hospitals as possible in order to spend these freed-up funds on unnecessary militarisation. What will happen to the elderly in remote areas without a healthcare system doesn’t worry these militaristic officials at all.
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