Doctors are plagued by signs of signs / day

A disproportionate and unjustified demand for a doctor’s signs to justify the child’s absence from the educational institution creates an unnecessary burden on doctors and parents. In schools, the rules are different – there is where a family doctor or other health care professional is required to have approved by a health care professional even for a single lesson delay is where they are more democratic. Guidelines will be developed to reduce unjustified delays for educational institutions to have clearer stop points.

Stricter criteria are needed

The Ministry of Health (MoE) encourages flexibly approaching this issue and the schools themselves organize cooperation with parents. Not only is it important not only to overload the doctors, but at the same time avoid being taken to a doctor’s practice in order to get a sign of delay. More trusted parents, and perhaps five days would be the limit when a doctor’s sign is not required, but such a delay in training should only be allowed once in a semester, said Jan Feldmane, Director of the Public Health Department of the Saeima’s Human Rights and Public Affairs Committee. She urged « not to make the rules so that school can do nothing else » but make them as recommendations