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RIGA Pavel Buchnevich Womens Jersey , July 25 (Xinhua) -- The Latvian government on Tuesdayapproved a reform plan for the Baltic country's healthcaresystem.


The plan, which has been outlined in the Health Ministry'sreport, calls for sweeping transformation in the Latvian healthsector and higher pay for medics.


The ministers greenlighted the reform plan amid an ongoingstrike of general practitioners, or family physicians as they arecalled in Latvia Brady Skjei Womens Jersey , who are demanding higher government funding perpatient.


The reform plan proposed by the Health Ministry includesmeasures like raising Latvia's health budget to 4 percent of grossdomestic product (GDP) by 2020, which among other things wouldallow increasing medical specialists' pay, reorganizing healthcareinstitutions and defining local authorities' role in ensuringhealthcare services.


The reform plan also calls for a more compact and efficienthospital network, smaller family physicians' practices andinnovative medications to cancer patients.


According to the reform plan Rick Nash Womens Jersey , provision of highly complexmedical services would be concentrated in Latvia's largest medicalcenters, while the network of healthcare institutions would bedesigned to ensure that those patients who do not need inpatienttreatment can receive services as close to their home as possible,the Health Ministry said.


By Sept. 15, the Health Ministry will work out a detailed planfor the development of the primary care system David Desharnais Womens Jersey , and localauthorities' role in ensuring healthcare services will be debateduntil March 1, 2018.


The Health Ministry is also determined to go ahead with thelaunch of the much-criticized e-health system, which is intended tohelp patients follow and control their health data and quicklyprovide necessary information on patients to physicians and othermedical staff. Enditem


SEOUL, July 13 (Xinhua) -- South Korea's central bank on Thursday raised its 2017 growth forecast for the economy to reflect the altered economic situations at home and abroad.


Bank of Korea (BOK) Governor Lee Ju-yeol announced the upward revision following a rate-setting meeting where Lee and other monetary policy board members decided unanimously to freeze the benchmark rate at an all-time low of 1.25 percent. The rate was lowered to the current level in June last year.


The BOK's growth outlook for this year was revised up to 2.8 percent from 2.6 percent unveiled three months earlier. In April Michael Grabner Womens Jersey , the bank's forecast was revised up by 0.1 percentage point.


The BOK's upgraded outlook was higher than the figures disclosed by local economic think tanks that ranged from 2.5 percent to 2.6 percent. The government's outlook was 2.6 percent.


The upward revision reflected recovering exports, which posted a double-digit increase for six months through June. Exports account for about half of the Asia's No.4 economy.


Governor Lee told reporters that the exports grew at a steep pace despite the lackluster consumption expansion, predicting a solid growth trend in the future amid lingering uncertainties of the country's major trading partners as well as geopolitical risks.


Earlier this month, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) test-fired what it claimed an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) that flew about 930 km and was lofted as high as 2 Kevin Shattenkirk Womens Jersey ,800 km.


It rattled the South Korean stock market following the DPRK announcement of the successful ICBM test-launch, but local shares rebounded, posting a new record closing high in recent sessions.


The top central banker said the upgraded growth outlook did not reflect the government's supplementary budget plan to create decent jobs, which had been blocked by conservative opposition parties from being passed through the National Assembly.


If implemented Chris Kreider Womens Jersey , the government expected the budget plan to raise the country's gross domestic product (GDP) by 0.2 percentage points this year.


The GDP growth rate was 3.3 percent in 2014, before falling to 2.8 percent both in 2015 and 2016.


The BOK set its consumer price inflation outlook at 1.9 percent, unchanged compared with three months earlier.


The central bank said the falling number of Chinese tourists visiting South Korea would drag down the GDP expansion by 0.3 percentage points in 2017.


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