Latvia

Health systems in transition
Latvia
Narcology
The following institutions provide narcology services in Latvia:
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State Narcology Centre – Riga
Straupe narcological hospital
Daugavpils narcological hospital
Jelgava narcological hospital
Riga narcomania patient rehabilitation centre
Rindzele narcological rehabilitation centre
Rehabilitation
The following institutions provide rehabilitation services in Latvia:
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Kurzeme region rehabilitation centre “Tērvete”
Latgale region rehabilitation centre “Rāzna”
Vidzeme region rehabilitation centre “Līgatne”
Rehabilitation centre “Ogre”
Rehabilitation centre “Baltezers”
Rehabilitation centre “Krimulda”
Sanare KRC Jaunķemeri
Leprosy
The State Leprosy Hospital provides leprosy treatment in Latvia.
Day care
Starting from 2000 a number of day care hospitals have been opened in Latvia,
at which patients receive care and are released during the course of a day.
Hospitals providing day care services are not common in Latvia.
According to the “Regulation of the Cabinet of Ministers on Organization and
Financing of Health Care” (2004), day care hospital facilities are considered to
be in the secondary ambulatory care sector and are financed from the ambulatory
care budget (through the SCHIA). A patient with a referral (from a family
doctor or specialist) can freely choose the institution providing day care hospital
services, provided the institution is contracted by the SCHIA.
In Latvia, day care hospital facilities are located within hospitals, specifically
state and district or municipal multifunctional hospitals. The main health care
services in day care hospitals include the following:
• haemodialysis for chronically ill patients;
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