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“The decision was made with six votes in favor and two abstentions. This is our political will to recommend the transformation,” said committee president Antanas Matulas.
This decision was welcomed by the Minister of Health Arūnas Dulkys.
“I want to thank the Health Committee, which is a great commitment for us,” he said.
The minister said that the implementation of the reform in the port city is planned to strengthen the infection sector by allocating 11 million. EUR could also be allocated on a provisional basis.
“In fact, in Klaipeda, around 11 million. EUR, we would travel to the field of infections: we would strengthen this bar and prepare for future crises, pandemics (…) euros, which could be invested in medical institutions across the city to changes and reforms, ”said A. Dulkys.
A meeting of the Health Affairs Committee was held in Klaipeda on Friday in order to establish a teaching hospital in the port city, merging the Klaipeda University Hospital, which belongs to the municipality, and the Sailors’ Hospital.
The committee also recommended the inclusion of the Klaipeda Children’s Hospital and the Palanga Rehabilitation Hospital.
The goal is for Klaipėda University to become a shareholder in the new institution, but so far the law does not provide for this possibility for a higher education institution that does not undertake three-cycle doctoral studies.
Klaipėda University is currently studying nursing specialists, so the chairman of the Antanas Matulas committee has registered amendments to the Law on Health Care Institutions that establish that a higher education institution conducting medical or nursing studies can be shareholder of a university hospital.
According to the chairman of the committee, the implementation of such a transformation would create an opportunity for “large investments in infrastructure, equipment, other things,” as well as benefit patients who would not have to go to Kaunas or Vilnius to receive services.
At present, there are three personal health care institutions with university hospital status in Lithuania: Vilnius University Hospital, Santara Clinic, Vilnius University Hospital, Žalgiris Clinic and Lithuanian University Hospital of Sciences of Health, the Kaunas Clinic.
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