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Tag: hospitals
Situation in state hospitals is according to the Minister of Health Zuzana Zvolenská disastrous. As she noted, if there is indebtedness, it is firstly necessary to remove its causes, what would according to her opinion never be made by the planned transformation of hospitals into the joint-stock companies. Debt of healthcare institutions in the scope of state was at the end of last year in amount of € 72.95 million. Most money hospitals owe to suppliers of pharmaceuticals and medical devices.
Faculty hospital in Nitra has a new modern pavilion. In the pavilion will be located internal, neurological a cardiology clinic, about 25 different outpatient clinics, laboratory workstations and central reception. Building required the costs in amount of € 16.657 million, which were covered by structural funds of European Union. Moving of particular workstations to the new pavilion will start during next week.
Minister of Health after her accession recalled notices of 17 directors of state hospitals and healthcare institutions for now. The reason of their exchange is, according to the Ministry, their mistakes. Directors were surprised by the argument of mistakes. Exchange of directors of hospitals and other healthcare institutions is automatically repeated after each change of government. According to the analyst of INEKO, Dušan Zachar, it is unnecessary, because these are not the positions, which would directly create the state health policy.
Smaller hospitals are establishing their own public pharmacies. Until now the public pharmacies in most hospitals were run by private operators. Hospitals want to use the profits from pharmacies to repay debts or purchase new equipment. Hospital is an ideal place for public pharmacy, as there is a large concentration of clients – patients, as well as their relatives.
This week will nurses and midwives get for the first time the wage according to the act, which guarantees its increasing. Hospitals are getting in crisis situations, some of them are talking about the end of departments. Management of hospital in Bojnice guarantees its staff the increasing of salaries according the current legislation. This applies also on 310 nurses and 29 midwives working in hospital. According to the director after increasing of salaries of doctors and current increasing of wages of nurses it is possible to keep the running of hospital under current conditions until the end of June.
Last year totally 1 391 complaints on health care provision were filled to the Healthcare Surveillance Authority and another 260 complaints had to be solved from the previous year. Less than one thousand complaints were related to the review of the good medical practice, but only 282 of them the Authority evaluated as justified. Most amercements, a total of five, were given by Authority to the general hospital in Rimavská Sobota.
Association of Hospitals in Slovakia calls for increasing of the next year's payments for state policyholders to 5% of average wage. This would prevent the repeating of the current critical situation in healthcare system with the lack of financial cover for mandatorily increased salaries of nurses and doctors. Association also plans to request the Parliament to adjust both acts – on wage conditions of doctors and nurses, as they are non-systematic and not financially covered.
Hospitals in Dolný Kubín, Trstená, Čadca and Liptovský Mikuláš agreed that they are really threatened by bankruptcy. Hospitals of the Žilina region have minimum numbers of employees, the payments from insurance companies, however, are still not enough for salaries and mandatory contributions, in addition the pharmaceuticals and medical supplies are being purchased on debt. If they followed the law and increased the salaries of nurses in April, directors would have to close the hospitals.
Representatives of regional non-state hospitals negotiated today with the private insurance company Dôvera. The reason was seeking for financial covering of the mandatorily increased salaries of nurses and midwives. Both sides agreed to continue in negotiations on possible adjustments of contract from June. Dôvera, however, at the same time pointed out that there is a lack of resources in the healthcare system.
Number of inpatient facilities should be, according to the President Ivan Gašparovič, certainly reduced. In the future it will be necessary to solve the density of hospitals and density of beds, which is currently oversized. Minister of Health introduced to the President the proposals, which she wants to incorporate into the government program. They also discussed the measures, by which the MoH wants to solve the salary issue of nurses and other healthcare professionals. Minister will present them to the public after the Tuesday's negotiation with the representatives of nurses.
