List of active policies

• General Data Protection Regulation - https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=CELEX:32016R0679&from=EN  
• Personal Data Processing Law - https://likumi.lv/ta/en/en/id/300099
• Medical Treatment Law - https://likumi.lv/ta/en/en/id/44108 
• Law On the Rights of Patients - https://likumi.lv/ta/en/en/id/203008  
• Regulations regarding the competence of healthcare professionals and students acquiring first or second level professional study programmes in the field of medicine in the institutions of higher education and the volume of their theoretical and practical knowledge - https://likumi.lv/doc.php?id=190610    
• Regulations Regarding Mandatory Requirements for Medical Treatment Institutions and Their Structural Units - https://likumi.lv/ta/en/en/id/187621
• Rīga Stradiņš University Privacy Policy - https://www.rsu.lv/en/privacy-policy  
  

• List of IT tools to be used and manner in which the information is to be provided, the conditions for the use of the video camera and microphone, information on profiling and data transfer to third countries (if applicable);
• Commitments of students and lecturers.

5.1.  RSU staff and visitors shall arrive at RSU, taking a mouth and nose cover (hereinafter referred to as a face mask) with them. At the request of the responsible RSU employee (lecturer, welcomer, etc.), the person shall wear a face mask.

5.2. RSU personnel and visitors shall be prohibited from entering and staying in RSU premises if they experience signs of an acute respiratory infectious disease (running nose, cough, shortness of breath, increased body temperature) or if the Covid-19 infection has been confirmed, or if the person has been requested to stay in self-isolation.

5.3. If the signs of an acute respiratory infectious disease begin when at RSU premises, the person shall inform his or her immediate superior (employees), lecturer (students and other learners) or an RSU representative – contact person (visitors) thereof immediately, put on a face mask and leave the RSU premises.  The person shall contact his or her family doctor immediately. They should jointly decide on further medical treatment and inform the immediate superior, lecturer or another representative of the RSU accordingly.

5.6. The following persons shall be responsible for direct monitoring and reporting of the health condition of the person to the director of the department concerned:

5.6.1. at a lecture or class – the academic or technical staff or lecturer present;

5.6.2. in other cases – the head of the structural unit.

6.3. If the student has not attended 2 classes, the student’s lecturer shall contact the student, learn the reasons and report them to the head of the study programme.

6.7.1. the International Admissions Office (with regard to applicants) and the International Student Department (with regard to students) shall inform applicants and students about the obligation to come to the Republic of Latvia not less than 14 days before the commencement of regular studies and observe self-isolation;

6.7.3. if an applicant or student arrives from a country, which is included in the list of the Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (a country with a high risk of infection), the International Student Department shall explain self-isolation requirements to the student.

7.1. RSU staff is required to use and carry their employee card or student card in a visible place. Access to RSU buildings is limited by an access control system – doors open by an employee or student card.  The flows of people who are coming and leaving are separated in buildings at Dzirciema iela 16 and Anniņmuižas bulvāris 26a, Riga, in the main entrance nodes.

8.1. Placement in study programmes shall take place in accordance with placement regulations.

11.1. Potential tenants of the student hostel, who return or arrive in Latvia from foreign countries, which are included in the list of countries with increased incidence compiled by the Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, shall stay in self-isolation for 14 days outside RSU student hostels and shall inform the hostel administration thereof using application channels – frontdesk@rsu.lv , telephone +371 27824945 Hostel premises can be used after the end of the self-isolation period, of the person does not show any symptoms of the infection.