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Patients are hospitalised who have serious health problems and can no longer be treated on an outpatient basis. Patients require complicated, urgent or even emergency care, so skilled personnel are essential. The State Audit Office of Latvia has found during the audit that, unfortunately, more than 700 million euros allocated to hospitals annually, that is almost 40% of the healthcare budget, are spent to maintain the historically fragmented hospital network, rather than to provide patients with equal and high-quality healthcare. To change this, clear political decisions and changes in the hospital network and financing system are needed.
