Marina Truhanova, deputy head of National Health Service Latvia, discusses the responsibility that the Latvian National Health System (NHS) has in terms of allocating their financial resources wisely, the importance of public procurement of medicines with the other two Baltic states to purchase cheaper drugs and allow for more access and the implementation of e-health as a means of increasing transparency.
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"It took a long time for the three Baltic states to cooperate because of differences in legislation but now we are proud to have two different types of procurement for two different types of vaccines - one with Lithuania and one with Estonia."
