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The information to disturbing reflexion: the trade union of physicians of Latvia warns, that budget reduction on public health services at a rate of 10 % is an accident and increase in death rate among the population, or, easier speaking, “biological destruction”. |
All painful reductions in public health services it is planned to spend since July, 1st and to finish by the end of year.
Guards the statistican that the average inhabitant of Latvia spends in a year for medicines 68 латов. But there is a certain group of patients for which medicines are necessary as air drink. In this case conversation will go about the patients who have transferred a heart attack of a myocardium. This problem is better to dig from remote places for the official from medicine will tiresomely tell about privileges for acquisition of medicines by this group of patients, about advantage of medical insurance and the newest preparations received from leading western manufacturers. These facts are known and do not represent interest for the reader.
The journalist has met the person who has transferred two heart attacks, there were on invalid pension two and a half a year, but then has refused it, has received treatment in hospital of a name of Paul Stradinja where to it have expanded heart vessels in three places that in itself now is considered trifling operation. And here without medical products to this person now simply not to manage. If in 2004 Jury so we it will name in our conversation, spent for medicines at discounts in 75 and 100 % 120 латов in a year in 2007 already 168 латов, and for 2009 he should pay 216 латов, and that provided that rates of privileges will not reach 40 and less percent.
- Jury, explain, on what preparations the family doctor can establish the specified discounts?
- For example, to me the doctor constantly writes out престариум and to me it managed free of charge, though its all-round price in a drugstore 6 латов 6 centimes. Same year I for it should pay 1 armour with the superfluous. If other medical products gave out at a discount 75 % this year the discount makes 50 % earlier. From year to year the patient loses discounts and pays for medicines more. There is also other example when the doctor recommends to the patient to apply сортис, and the patient refuses it and replaces with its simple aspirin for the reason that it does not have not enough pension. And after all сортис is that preparation which prevents formation, so-called plaques in blood vessels and their corking in the form of blood clots.
- For years of illness you have succeeded in medical terminology, but what exit you see in improvement of supply by medicines of patients?
- I had to talk to the doctors sick, to hear opinion of physicians on TV and I has drawn a conclusion, that my opinion coincides with opinion of experts. Why Latvia does not buy medical preparations in Russia, and has flooded the market European? The reason is covered not that the Russian preparations, ostensibly, have not passed check at us and mismatch the European standards, and in supporting the European companies to the detriment of the population. Moreover, preparations from the same Russia, Belarus, Ukraine are genetically closer to us as we lived decades in one huge state. And if the American from a headache accepts aspirin, to the same совкому sick it as to an elephant a pellet. The budgetary money all elementary simply allocated for public health services, smoothly flows in pockets of the pharmaceutical companies of the West, with recoil of money and gifts to our officials from medicine. This system works in Latvia almost two ten years, and the people referring to it, have acquired to themselves the whole conditions.
- And why doctors are silent?
- Stop! Doctors cardiologists for me sacred. I remember till now doctors Дормидонтову, Гордина, Герсамию, Egorov which have rescued to me a life. Doctors piously fulfil the duty treat patients and cannot be responsible for a grief of ministers which vary with a regularity of 9 months. Not without reason say, that if you do not politicise, she will be engaged in you. Not the secret, that seldom what doctor politicises its calling to treat people. We have the president of the country of the doctor, but what from it advantage to medicine? We in the country will not have shifts to the best until the power has parties in power, a place which on a political cemetery. Illogically, but not at will of voters, they come to power again. As a result on a real cemetery those people who could not receive in time medical aid go.
- Much say what obligatory medical insurance could solve many problems?
- About what we speak! The population have finished to poverty, and it has no possibility to buy the medical policy. Already now from hospital people who cannot pay for treatment run. Not all employers wish to buy the medical insurance for the workers. It is possible to accept a heap of acts in the Diet, but they will not work until we will not lift the economy. Here with what it is necessary to begin, though frankly speaking, will make it very difficult.
- And still, the government makes the unpopular decision and again cuts the budget on medicine
- And all bore that all is allowed to the government also it never neither political, nor the criminal liability for the acts in the state. If on municipal elections will win the same “ruling” parties it is possible to consider, that medicine will kill without a knife, and the quantity of tombs on cemeteries will proportionally increase with reduction койкомест in hospitals and the further reduction of the budget on medicine.