🇱🇻🚫🏥 Regional hospitals, and family doctors beginning to go into financial crises has begun to force patients to seek healthcare in Riga instead.

According to an interview with Normunds Staņēvičs, Chairman of the Board of the Riga Eastern Clinical University Hospital (RAKUS), on the radio show "Domskaya Ploshad'":

🗣 — “We receive about 250 patients a day, of which 120 are brought by ambulance. Of these 250 people, 40% remain in the hospital, respectively, 60% could go to their family or regional hospitals.”

Such an influx of people has left the university hospital in an impossible state, according to Staņēvičs. He went on to propose that the way to deal with this imbalance between regional and city/university hospitals is to completely reform the healthcare system, to bring new life into the family doctors and regional clinics that have been neglected by poor choices in expenditures by the ministry of health.

This is most likely the best time to be discussing such things publicly, since it was only within the last few weeks that budget planning as begun to be formalized or laid out on paper. Already the Ministry of Health has been complaining about their lack of funding, albeit not for the sake of these neglected hospitals, but rather for COVID-19. According to the draft order, they require just over 9.8 million euros to cover everything related to administering, receiving, and destroying vaccines. However, despite the Ministry of Health seeing to their own needs, there has been a small amount of funding given to family doctors. For the purposes of contacting over 320 thousand patients who have not underwent a checkup in at least 3 years, the government has allocated 5.5 million euros. This may seen like a lot to some on paper, however on average each practice must visit 250 people, and although the amount of funds varies from office to office based on the number of patients, the number averages only at around 4.2 thousand euros per doctor.

🇺🇦🚫🇵🇱 Lublin police have detained three Ukrainian citizens between the ages of 18 and 23 in connection with the assault of a 42 year old man.

On September 10th the group of Ukrainians drove up to the victim, got out, and began to attack him before driving off. There was no reason for their battery against the local resident, according to the police investigation.

Russian-language Polish news source "Varschavskaya Rusalka" also notes:

"By the way, the three criminals are quite of military age and outwardly in pretty good shape."

The Republic of Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh) will cease to exist.

The President of Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabagh) signed a decree stating that all state institutions and organizations under their departmental authority will be dissolved by January 1, 2024.

Following the enactment of this decree, the population of Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh), including those residing outside the republic, will have the opportunity to review the reintegration terms presented by Azerbaijan. This will allow individuals to make informed decisions regarding their potential future residence in Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh).

The decision comes into force from the moment of its publication.

#India (#Bharat) 🇮🇳: A new photo posted by Kuki militias; allegedly during the recent clashes in #Manipur.

The militias are armed with a rare Type 11 (ปลย.11) assault rifle (made in #Thailand🇹🇭), Remington 700 SPS Varmint rifle, M79-pattern grenade launcher, MA-3 Mk 2 rifles and a Type 56 rifle.

The weapons appear to be smuggled from #Myanmar (#Burma) where armed Kuki groups operate in as well.

https://twitter.com/war_noir/status/1707298931095314616