Latvia’s Health Minister Ivars Eglitis Resigns Following Budget Cuts

Latvia’s Health Minister Ivars Eglitis has resigned from Prime Minister Valdis Dombrovski’s coalition government after declaring recent budget cuts would leave the majority of the country’s poor without healthcare.

Eglitis opposed the budget cuts passed by parliament on Tuesday, saying “As a doctor and a healthcare specialist in charge of the public health sector, I cannot accept this.”

Those budgets cuts were made in order to meet the qualifications outlined in an international loans package agreed to last December. That package included $10.5 billion in loans and to receive their latest installment of $1 billion they needed to cut its budget deficit.

Dombrovski accepted the resignation but said Eglitis “chose the easy way out.”

###

Click here for more World News

About YourFINDit

YourFindit Community is a business, music and social networking community. YourFINDit provides members with a wealth of applications that enable them to create an in depth profile within YourFindit. Profiles include an About Me, Background and Lifestyle, Videos, Photo sharing, News, Music, Blogs, unique URL and networking with other members inside the YourFINDit community. YourFindit provides ADit to each member providing them the opportunity to have an exclusive profile (no outside advertising) displaying only banner ads they upload to their pages. Members can run their own ads or give or sell their ad space to advertisers at prices the member sets.

To create your profile sign up and within minutes you too can have your People profile running your ads and building your network with new members daily.

YourFindit is owned and operated by TransWorldNews, Inc. a news and press release distribution service.