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News on medicine and health care in Slovakia
Health Ministry to ban reexport of medicine
Low prices have seen distribution companies sell supplies abroad for bigger profits.
Homeopathy ads bring criticism
Two complaints target campaign promoting alternative treatments.
Health Minister pushes private pharmacies from hospitals
Profits from pharmacy services will now go to the hospitals themselves and help combat revenue deficits.
More than 400 people await transplants
Despite the positive increase last year, the number of transplantations dropped during the first three months of this year.
Penta acquires profitable hospital after court ruling
Court orders the Nitra Regional administration to rent the hospital in Topoľčany to the Penta financial group.
The worst hospital is in Bratislava
On the other hand, patients from eastern Slovakia are the most satisfied with their treatment.
State health insurer officially gets new head
Miroslav Kočan wants to set rules to increase transparency, objectivity and public awareness of the insurer.
Fico accuses Suchánek of promoting expensive CT scanner
Prime Minister Robert Fico on May 13 called on opposition Ordinary People and Independent Personalities (OĽaNO)-NOVA MP Alan Suchánek to resign, as he in 2012 promoted the purchase of the most expensive and technically inappropriate CT scanner; Suchánek refuses accusation.
Tomáš Szalay to become health minister’s aide
Head of the non-governmental Health Policy Institute (HPI) Tomáš Szalay should become a new member of Health Minister Tomáš Drucker’s team.
Debt in health sector rises to €550 million
State-run hospitals tackle problems with late payments for medicaments and medical materials, but also costs for their employees.
State money to be used to build new Bratislava hospital
The new university hospital in Bratislava may not be financed via the public-private partnership (PPP) project, as was originally planned.
Health insurers’ profit dispute sent to the EU court
Slovakia has made a step towards reversing an arbitration ruling over the ban of generating profits on private health insurers, the Finance Ministry says.
State-run health insurer to be led by Miroslav Kočan
Miroslav Kočan will become the director of the state-run health insurer Všeobecná zdravotná poisťovňa (VšZP), Health Minister Tomáš Drucker announced.
Haško becomes new ÚDZS director
As of next month, Tomáš Haško, deputy director of Bratislava University Hospital (Ružinov branch) and former director of the National Institute of Oncology (NOÚ), will become the new director of the Health-care Surveillance Authority (ÚDZS).
eHealth deadlines to be postponed, reasons investigated
Deadlines for eHealth projects will be postponed, according to the amendment to the Health Insurance Act greenlighted by the Parliament in a fast-tracked procedure on April 27.
State health insurer terminates dubious contracts
Current VšZP chair criticises his predecessor, who signed agreements with firms linked to his own aunt.
Cabinet postpones issuing of eHealth cards
The Supreme Audit Office questions appendixes to existing agreements.
Top health-care manager leaves position
The new Health Minister Tomáš Drucker (Smer nominee) seems to cause big changes in the sector: deputy head of the Health-care Surveillance Authority (ÚDZS) Martin Senčák is also leaving his post.
Health care needs cleaning, new minister could deliver
No major reform or brand new vision for the health care sector planned, but contains some positive steps that could make the new minister, who entered the sector as a crisis manager with little experience in health care, a good caretaker in the next four years.
CT experts allegedly did not get the right market
Charges in the case of the purchase of an overpriced CT device allegedly dropped for comparing the prices with the Czech Republic.
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