Tag: outpatient care

Outpatient care sector is not ready for the situation when hospital doctors leave. Head of the Association of private doctors, Ladislav Pásztor, addressed to government, that if it will not make an agreement with Medical Trade Unions, it should invite outpatient care doctors to prepare an emergency plan. He also stressed, that logistic of the patients has to be prepared. Outpatient clinics are waiting for the clear instructions from Minister of Health, what to do with the patients, who needed the hospitalization and now their operations are postponed. Number of patients coming to the outpatient clinics is already growing and so the costs of drugs and laboratory tests are increasing.

Slovak Medical Specialists Union asked all private outpatient clinics for one-day strike, which should take place on December the 1^st. According to the Union President Andrej Janco many of private outpatient clinics were abolished because of the lack of funds and hundreds are currently about to be closed. Doctors in Union also dislike, that government only deals with the requirements of public doctors and nurses instead of compensating of shortfall in funding equitably for all. Union President also noted that private outpatient clinics were the first that expressed their requirements for salaries increasing. He argues that they have thereat received the promise of a fair sharing of financing from the Prime Minister.