Zydrune Visiockene, head of Vilnius University’s Center of Endocrinology and a key opinion leader on the topic of diabetes in the Baltics, casts his expert eye over the disease’s prevalence in Lithuania as well as the private and public sector initiatives currently underway to counter this important public health threat.
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"The problem we face – reimbursement is based on local guidelines, that are not in line with international ones and it is quite difficult to convince the Ministry of Health (MoH) to make changes to local guidelines and include new medications for DM treatment in the position they can have, based on current evidence."
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