A affected person transportation service is being offered all through Lithuania

From July 1, Monday, a affected person transportation service shall be offered all through Lithuania. Sufferers who meet the factors for a trip will be capable to order a trip service by calling 1808 from house to the remedy facility and again. The event of this service will carry remedy providers nearer to sufferers and thus assist essentially the most weak inhabitants (as a result of well being, poverty, age). The aim of the measure is to make sure that age, participation degree, well being standing or different components will not be an impediment to receiving mandatory well being care providers.

Trial affected person transportation began in August of final yr in some municipalities of the nation. From July 1 of this yr the service is being prolonged to all of Lithuania and shall be offered in all 60 municipalities.

Well being Safety Minister Arūnas Dulkys emphasizes that sufferers in Lithuania can freely select each a remedy facility and a treating doctor. Along with the event of affected person transportation all through Lithuania, the mobility of sufferers is elevated, thus guaranteeing the opportunity of sufferers receiving essentially the most related deliberate well being providers.

“The outcomes of the pilot affected person switch confirmed that the switch service is related, fixing each the supply of remedy providers and social points. It has already been utilized by hundreds of sufferers. Together with the enlargement of the shuttle service to the entire of Lithuania, one other barrier is destroyed and the affected person’s proper to decide on a remedy facility and obtain well timed medical service is ensured. The joint motion of the state and municipalities within the title of sufferers’ well-being is commendable,” says the minister.

“We thank the Authorities and the Ministry of Well being for a constructive dialogue, the results of which ought to justify the expectations of the inhabitants and supply a service to those that would possibly in any other case discover it tougher to get to the precise physician on time. An enormous benefit is that the service shall be offered evenly all through Lithuania. I hope that through the summer season we are going to be taught to make use of it, each in essentially the most distant areas and within the municipalities across the huge cities. And municipalities will proceed to maintain and transport sufferers who want dialysis”, says Audrius Klišonis, mayor of Plungė and performing president of the Affiliation of Lithuanian Municipalities.

In response to Nerijaus Mikelionis, the top of the Emergency Medical Service coordinating the shuttle service, a lot of the shuttle providers is not going to be carried out by GMP brigades, however by firms offering such providers which have received public tenders. “After evaluating the outcomes of the pilot challenge, it turned out that such rides make up 90 % of all providers. In fact, if an individual wants well being care providers through the trip, that is GMP’s job,” says N. Mikelionis.

“Kaunas clinics present remedy providers to sufferers not solely from Kaunas county – the latter make up somewhat greater than 60 %. The remainder of the sufferers (virtually 40%) come from different counties of Lithuania. Subsequently, it’s comprehensible that a few of them don’t have the chance to reach on their very own, so the shuttle service turns into extraordinarily essential for them. We imagine that, because of this challenge, we are going to enhance the supply of providers for the residents of the areas”, says the final director of Kaunas Clinics of LSMU Hospital, prof. expert Dr. Renaldas Jurkevičius.

Take a look at trip outcomes

Innovation – the pilot affected person transportation challenge began on August 1 final yr. in 20 municipalities of the nation. So as to acquire related knowledge, in addition to to implement varied technical and organizational options, the challenge was applied in levels, involving totally different teams of sufferers: these in want of hemodialysis and transplantation providers, sufferers over 75 years previous, with disabilities. From July 1 of this yr the shuttle service will proceed to be offered to all these teams of sufferers, solely by increasing the geography to the whole territory of Lithuania.

Through the eleven months of the pilot challenge, a complete of 16.5 thousand had been offered. transportation providers, of which 12.3 thousand – for sufferers with kidney illnesses, who periodically must endure a hemodialysis process. 1.7 thousand sufferers had been transported to a remedy facility for specialised outpatient providers, over 700 occasions for outpatient rehabilitation providers. A lot of the shuttle providers had been offered to the residents of Vilkaviškis, Prienai, Lazdijai, Šakii and Kaišiadorii municipalities.

From July 1 the shuttle providers that shall be offered shall be paid for by the state finances and the Obligatory Well being Insurance coverage Fund (PSDF), aside from hemodialysis, which shall be compensated by the municipalities.

Who’s the shuttle service for?

The shuttle service is meant for residents who:

• have a participation price of 55 % or much less and are eligible for low-income drug premiums;
• degree of incapacity, and who’re entitled to premiums for compensatory medicines as a result of inadequate revenue.
• For individuals aged 75 and older who’re entitled to premiums for compensatory medicines as a result of inadequate revenue;
• for individuals who want a trip service as a result of a medical situation.

The trip is split into two sorts: non-specialized and specialised. Over the last trip, an individual with a medical schooling participates. Which means the transport service is offered by an ambulance, throughout which the affected person’s situation is monitored. Throughout a non-specialized trip, the physician doesn’t accompany the sufferers.

The best way to e book a trip?

The shuttle service will be ordered by calling the Hotline with the quick telephone quantity 1808. Extra data – on the web site https://1808.lt/.

The road operator, after checking whether or not the affected person has the precise to obtain the service, assigns a automobile that meets his wants and coordinates the time of the trip. The shuttle service is scheduled, it is strongly recommended to order it no sooner than one month prematurely and no later than two working days prematurely.

Not solely the affected person himself, but additionally an individual accompanying him, a social employee, a member of the family, a well being care specialist or one other particular person can order a trip service. An individual accompanying the affected person or perhaps a information canine can go together with the transport ordered by the affected person.

Yow will discover extra details about the authorized regulation of the affected person shuttle challenge HERE.

July 1 A recording of the press convention and repair launch is accessible for viewing HERE.

Press launch