Health Ministry seeks €26,079 to cover medical care for illegal border crossers

Latvia's Ministry of Health has proposed reallocating €26,079 from the state budget programme "Ensuring External Border Security Measures". The money would be used to cover medical care expenses for people who attempted to cross the Latvia–Belarus border illegally. That border forms part of the European Union's external frontier.

The proposal is contained in a draft order prepared by the ministry. It envisages shifting the funds out of the named budget programme, which is intended for external border security measures.

The source gives no further detail on which medical services were provided, how many people were affected or over what period the costs arose. No decision on the reallocation is mentioned either, as the document in question is a draft order.