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Hospital in Žiar will get new equipment

Non-profit organization Hospitals and Polyclinics, which manages the hospitals in Žiar nad Hronom and Rimavská Sobota, is planning to buy a new equipment for the hospital in Žiar. Estimated value of the order is more than € 1.3 million. Hospital should receive the special medical technique in the frame of project of restructuring and modernization of the special outpatient care. Project will be financed from the Operational Programme Health

No subsidies for research this year

Ministry of Health announced a public invitation for receiving the grant support for the scientific research projects. Support should be in accordance with the intentions of Ministry of Health as well as with the recommendations of European Commission. Although applications should be submitted by the end of May this year, funds will not be available so soon. Given that Ministry of Health does not have funds for implementation of projects in the financial year 2012, subsidy may be provided in the financial year 2013.

Penta wants to buy another about 40 pharmacies

Investment group Penta will probably expand its business in pharmacy. Currently it owns 136 pharmacies under the brand Dr. Max. Now it should get about 40 pharmacies from the network Domov Zdravia. Penta is waiting for the approval of Antimonopoly Office. Contract of sale was allegedly signed in October 2011. Transaction is still not completed. In the case of approval of Antimonopoly Office it will come to the settlement of the transaction.  

Hospital in Gelnica will be reconstructed

Polyclinic in the General hospital in Gelnica will pass the reconstruction of the outpatient care areas and the modernization of technologies. Hospital has already announced the tender. Estimated value of the order is almost € 884 000 and will be financed also from the Operational programme Health. Project should be completed within the two years from signing of the contract. 

Children Cardio-centre has new equipment

Several Slovak hospitals, including Children Cardio-centre in Bratislava, are struggling with the problem of insufficient material and technical equipment. Children Cardio-centre, however, received a gift from the company S&T Slovakia – new special neonatal adjustable bed and the unit for improving of lung functions of babies and small children, which should help doctors with the care of baby patients.

Children's Hospital in Košice will buy new equipment

Children's Hospital in Košice plans to purchase medical equipment in an estimated value of € 3,499 million. Contract funded from the Operational Programme Health includes the delivery of special, highly sophisticated medical technique. Contract also includes equipment for clinics and departments including the services, which are necessary for implementation of equipment.

The renovated laboratories in Košice

The premises of transplantation laboratories and clinic immunology in the University hospital Košice were reconstructed. This workplace has a great importance, because of special devices used here by experts. Supposedly this is the best equipped state laboratory in Slovakia. Every year it carries up about 220 000 examinations. Laboratory is also significantly involved in the transplantation programme of tissues and organs. Costs on the reconstruction of new premises reached € 58 000.

Most modern defibrillator was implanted in Košice

Automatic self-aligning defibrillator, which controls the heart rate, was for the first time implanted in East Slovak Institute of Cardiovascular Diseases in Košice. This kind of device was first commercially used in October last year in France. Defibrillator automatically adjusts the parameters, which have been until now adjusted only by the less accurate echocardiography test. 

Department of robotic assistance in Banská Bystrica

Faculty hospital in Banská Bystrica opened a new medical treatment rooms and also the newly established department of robotic surgery. One room is reserved for robot-assisted operations, which hospital, with the help of Da Vinci technology, provides as the only one in Slovakia. Hospital started with robot-assisted operations in March last year. Robot arms are controlled by the surgeon with the control console and video system.

New CT scanners in Liptov

Hospitals in Trstená and Liptovský Mikuláš have available new, more efficient CT scanners. These top diagnostic equipments reportedly improve the quality of examination and provide new diagnostic and therapeutic possibilities. Computer tomography is used for radiological examination of the inside of human body and is important in diagnosing of various injuries and diseases. Modern multidetector computerized tomography reduces the radiation load of the patient and the amount of contrast medium in the body.




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