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Childrens' Faculty Hospital in Košice has seven new pulse oxymetri, which can reveal blood flow disorder by small patients. Doctors may this way accelerate the transfer from department to department and provide patients sooner with acute care. The device helps to detect those situations where it is not quite clear, if the clinical condition of the patient will deteriorate. It can control the oxygen in the body of young patient. The hospital already has similar equipment, but new ones will contribute to help more children.
Minister of Health Ivan Uhliarik talked to the doctors from Childrens' Faculty Hospital in Bratislava, they did not arrived to a particular agreement though. Doctors said that minister did not convince most of them to withdraw their notices. Hospital still registers 112 notices, originally there were 121 of them. Minister said that he has also discussed with doctors the additional financing and the approximate amount that the hospital would need for not making the debts. According to doctors, Minister offered € 10 million, but Minister said, they did not talk about the specific sum.
Bailout of public hospitals, which should have been changed to join-stock companies, is now suspended. This was the decision of Ministry of Finance. The reason is the stoppage of transformation until the early elections in March. Originally there were € 350 million earmarked for the bailout of hospitals. Debts of 31 public hospitals represent approximately € 500 million. According to MoF spokesman the bailout of hospitals together with transformation into the joint-stock companies should have ensured more effective functioning of hospitals. But as he said, the change of management will not occur without the transformation.
Žilina self-governing region has suspended the planned transformation of four regional hospitals. Hospitals in Dolný Kubín, Liptovský Mikuláš, Trstená and Čadca will therefore continue their operation as contributory organizations. Members of regional parliament want to see how the situation will develop, and wait for the new government and its decision whether the transformation of the state-owned hospitals will continue or not.
President Ivan Gašparovič has recommended the Minister of Health Ivan Uhliarik to stop the transformation of hospitals into joint-stock companies. He has recommended Government not to adopt the Certificates of Corporation and to postpone the transformation until the early elections. According to President the public fears that the transformation would lead to privatization and thereby to the abolition of state medical facilities. At the same time he addressed himself to medical trade unions to initiate the withdrawal of physicians' notices.
After the transformation of hospitals into joint-stock companies the health insurance companies may have even more important word in the field of health care provision, according to etrend.sk. Protest of doctors may help insurance companies to reduce deficiently busy departments and to cancel some beds. If the departure of doctors actually occurs, hospitals will have to proceed in merging of departments and the closure of beds. Provision of health care should be thereby moved to the hospitals and departments, which will be able to provide it and the resources of insurance companies will be focused exactly in these facilities.
Transformation of state medical facilities into the joint-stock companies will continue. This decision was made by the government. More than 20 hospitals should be transformed by the end of this year, the others next year. In addition, the Government agreed on the disclosing of memorandum with the creditors of hospitals within the realization of debt relief before the transformation. Medical trade unions are, however, still trying to stop the transformation.
Several private investors are interested in the regional hospitals in Topoľčany and Levice, namely the companies Agel, Penta and Unifarma. Heads of caucuses established the commission, which should deal with the problem of financing of both health care facilities. The Commision's task is to determine whether it is possible to find an external operator. If this is not, the Commission will have to find out, how to continue with the non-profit organization Hospital and Clinic.
According to daily Hospodárske noviny from 1/11/2011, President Ivan Gašparovič believes, that the fate of the transformation of hospitals into joint-stock companies should be decided by the new government. According to him, the present government should, after the loss of trust, no longer continue in the transformation process. Medical trade unions also urge politicians to cancel the entire process. Minister of Health wants, however, the transformation continuance to be reaffirmed by the decision of current government.
According to assessment made by private health insurance company Dôvera, this year patients were most satisfied with the hospital in Prešov and hospital Šaca in Košice. While the hospital in Prešov won the first place among the faculty hospitals, private hospital in Šaca was the first among the general hospitals. The second best between the faculty hospitals is University hospital in Bratislava, as the third ended the Faculty hospital in Nové Zámky. Hospitals placed on the top positions supposedly got better thanks to the pushing for greater efficiency.
