Video: Latvia cuts public services
Hospitals and schools face closure in country hit hard by financial crisis.
Published On 4 Sep 2009
Recession prompts Latvia to cut public services
Few countries in Europe are feeling the recession as acutely as Latvia, where the public purse is running so low that many hospitals and schools are being shut down because the government can no longer afford to keep them open.
Jonah Hull reports from Riga, the Latvian capital.
Source: News Agencies