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Health Sector Programmes

Programme: Improvement of perinatal and neonatal care services in Lithuania

  • Programme objective: to improve the perinatal and neonatal health care system in Lithuania.

Programme goals:

  • To improve the quality of health care services to pregnant, delivering women and neonates.
  • To improve collection of statistic data on the health of pregnant, delivering women and neonates and to expand the possibilities of sharing and analysing the collected data.

Programme results:

  • 24 hospitals, including hospitals operating in the peripheral regions as well as perinatal centres, equipped with the necessary modern medical equipment for providing high quality perinatal and neonatal health care services.
  • Vehicles with special equipment for safe transportation of neonates provided to 3 health care institutions providing medical care to premature neonates and the services of neonatal reanimation and intensive treatment.
  • Premises of 10 health care institutions repaired and adjusted for medical equipment installation and usage.
  • Developed 70 diagnostics and treatment protocols in obstetrics and neonatology that allow standardizing the diagnostics and treatment of the most prevailing pathologies encountered in the before mentioned areas and enable the provision of higher quality health care services to pregnant, delivering women and neonates.
  • Improved professional competence and modern technology usage skillsof not less than 1300 medical specialists engaged in the provision of obstetric and neonatal services, taking over the experience of more advanced foreign countries.
  • Computer database of pregnant, delivering women and neonates health data developed and installed in health care institutions, improving the collection of statistical data on perinatal and neonatal health and expanding the possibilities of data analysis through the inclusion of data on premature and unhealthy neonates required for the remote monitoring of such neonates.

The achievement of the above-listed outcomes will ensure a better accessibility and higher quality of inpatient perinatal and neonatal health care services.

The list of hospitals involved in programme implementation:

  1. Alytus aRegion S. Kudirka Hospital
  2. Kaunas Clinical Hospital
  3. Kėdainiai Hospital
  4. Klaipėda University Hospital 
  5. Christian Maternity Home
  6. Clinics of Kaunas University of Medicine
  7. Marijampolė Hospital
  8. Mažeikiai Hospital
  9. P. Mažylis Maternity Home
  10. Panevėžys Region Hospital
  11. Pasvalys Hospital
  12. Raseiniai Hospital
  13. Telšiai Region Hospital 
  14. Šiauliai Region Hospital 
  15. Tauragė Region Hospital
  16. Trakai Hospital
  17. Ukmergė Hospital
  18. Utena Region Hospital
  19. Vilnius University Children's Hospital 
  20. Vilkaviškis Hospital
  21. Vilnius Maternity Home
  22. Vilnius University Hospital
  23. Clinic of Santariškės of Vilnius University Hospital
  24. Visaginas Hospital
  • Start date of programme implementation: 2011 m. gruodžio 20 d.
  • End date of programme implementation: 2016 m. gruodžio 13 d.
  • More information about this programme can be found Here.

PROGRAMME: Introduction of energy efficient technologies into the Lithuanian hospitals providing perinatal and neonatal health

  • Programme Objective: to Improve quality of health care in perinatal and neonatal health care services in Lithuania and to contribute to the reduction of environmental pollution.

Programme Goals:

  • To increase energy efficiency in perinatal and neonatal health care services.
  • To improve microclimate in perinatal and neonatal health care services.
  • To improve reliability of medical gas supply systems in perinatal and neonatal health care services.

Expected Programme Results:

  1. Thermal insulation installed: renovated and insulated roofs – 6 hospitals, insulated exterior walls – 9 hospitals, replaced windows and exterior doors – 9 hospitals, sealed seams between the board panels of exterior walls – 1 hospital.
  2. Energy efficient engineering systems installed and operational: upgraded heating stations – 6 hospitals, upgraded external hot water supply systems (between heating station and buildings) – 2 hospitals, upgraded internal heating systems – 15 hospitals, upgraded electricity supply systems – 20 hospitals.
  3. Microclimate improvement engineering systems installed and operational: upgraded/installed ventilation/air conditioning systems – 19 hospitals.
  4. Rehabilitated and modernized vacuum and oxygen supply systems installed and operational: upgraded vacuum supply systems of units providing perinatal and neonatal health care services – 5 hospitals, upgraded oxygen supply systems of units providing perinatal and neonatal health care services – 12 hospitals.

The list of hospitals involved in programme implementation:

  1. Alytus aRegion S. Kudirka Hospital
  2. Kaunas Clinical Hospital
  3. Kėdainiai Hospital
  4. Klaipėda University Hospital 
  5. Christian Maternity Home
  6. Clinics of Kaunas University of Medicine
  7. Marijampolė Hospital
  8. Mažeikiai Hospital
  9. P. Mažylis Maternity Home
  10. Panevėžys Region Hospital
  11. Pasvalys Hospital
  12. Raseiniai Hospital
  13. Telšiai Region Hospital 
  14. Šiauliai Region Hospital 
  15. Tauragė Region Hospital
  16. Trakai Hospital
  17. Vilnius University Children's Hospital 
  18. Vilkaviškis Hospital
  19. Vilnius Maternity Home
  20. Vilnius University Hospital
  21. Visaginas Hospital
  • Start date of programme implementation: 2011 m. gruodžio 20 d.
  • End date of programme implementation: 2016 m. gruodžio 13 d.
  • More information about this programme can be found Here.

Last updated: 12-11-2023