Oncologist Jānis Eglītis has also left the board of the Latvian Medical Association (LĀB), according to information “Firmas.lv”.
The previously public announcement that Roberts Fūrmanis and Kārlis Rācenis have left the board has also been officially registered. Eglītis and Rācenis have been working for the Board of LĀB since 2018, while Fūrmanis has been working for the Board since 2015.
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Information “Firmas.lv” shows that Ilze Aizsilniece, President of the Association, Māris Pļaviņš, Vice-President of the Association, Gustavs Latkovskis, Cardiologist, Angelika Krūmiņa, Cardiologist, Editor-in-Chief of the magazine “Latvijas Ārsts” Jāzeps Baško, neurologist, algologist Valentīna Berga, health care management doctor Dzintars Mozgis, surgeon Viesturs Boka, state emeritus scientist Vilnis Dzērve-Tāluts, president of the Latvian Association of Rehabilitation Physicians Anda Nulle, vice-president of the Latvian Association of Gynecologists and Obstetricians Dace Matule
As reported, disagreements between board members began with differing positions on Covid-19 issues.
The Latvian Association of Young Doctors (LJĀA) has pointed out that “the choice of the LĀB Board to ignore the crisis situation is clearly felt”, as a result of which the organization has decided to terminate the cooperation with the LĀB until the next general meeting of members. Consequently, the representative of LJĀA Rācenis also resigned from the board of LĀB.
The former vice-president of LĀB, Fūrmanis, also resigned. He has stated that he is resigning from a society “whose management has lost contact with colleagues and practical medicine and which is not interested in the necessary changes for the LAB and doctors to regain public confidence”.
At the beginning of November, a proposal to hold early elections of officials was rejected at an extraordinary meeting of the LAB, which was convened at the request of former Vice President Fūrmanis.
LĀB was founded in 1988. The aim of the Association is the continuous improvement of the health care system and the qualification of doctors, the protection of the legal, professional and economic interests of Latvian doctors, the promotion of public health, the improvement of the health care organization, the improvement of the medical education system and the control of ethical principles.-
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