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HEALTH - Insurance problems plague Lithuania

Jun 11, 2008
By Adam Mullett

EMPTY BEDS: A strange situation in system beset by overcrowding and delays.

VILNIUS - If there was one sentence that sums up Lithuania’s medical system, it would be “you have to wait.” People wait to see a doctor, or for an urgent hip replacement operation, or for bypass surgery. Even the dead wait for post mortems. The only time that people don’t wait is when they have been in an accident or are close to dying. Then and only then do you receive urgent attention. “They will treat you so you do not die, but after that it is a big problem when you have state ...

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