Treatment cut as hospital scrambles for funding
Aug 12, 2009
From wire reports

INDIGESTION: Officials still look for short-term solution.
RIGA - Patients arriving for treatment, either by foot or in ambulance, to Riga 1st Hospital, began to be turned away August 10 cue to the severe budget shortfalls that are threatening public healthcare in the country.
"We will not accept patients at the Accident and Emergency Department outside of set working hours anymore. We will be the villains, even though this is not our fault," said the chairman of the hospital's board, Andrejs Pavars, reports news agency LETA.
"From now on, the hos ...
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