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Mandatory vaccination in compliance with the Constitution. Even Fico extended it in the past (Q&A)
The Sme daily prepares answers to questions on mandatory vaccination in Slovakia.
Medical organisations protest against planned cuts in healthcare funds
Health Ministry calls the planned reduction of €232 million a technical matter.
Police will protect healthcare workers against anti-vaxxers
Verbal and physical attacks are aimed against their family members, too.
Hospitals awaiting big changes. Some may lose their current status
Facilities supposed to be divided into five categories since 2024.
Healthcare staff want better salaries but cannot go on strike
Representatives of healthcare professions have signed a declaration with a number of demands.
Hundreds of nurses have left their jobs in Slovak health care
But the shortage of nurses is in the thousands.
People are neglecting their teeth more due to the coronavirus
Health insurer calls on clients to get their annual dental check-ups before the end of the year.
Ministry launches health care reform, wants to solve doctor shortage in five years
Plan includes hospital reform and addresses health insurer profits.
The second pandemic wave postponed the treatment of many patients
Some treatments had to be suspended or even cancelled by a doctor or a hospital.
Hospital reform unveiled, ministry plans to cut down on acute beds
Slovakia has 1.4 billion euros to spend on its health care facilities, mostly from the EU Recovery Fund.
Slovakia lacks general practitioners, particularly in the countryside
If the situation doesn’t improve, 200 ageing doctors will leave their posts annually.
Families of healthcare workers who died of Covid will be compensated
The cabinet approved several changes to healthcare laws. Some concern vaccination.
Slovakia will ask foreign healthcare workers for help
The Health Ministry has pointed to complications caused by the new Covid strains.
Best Slovak hospitals are in Banská Bystrica and Košice
The pandemic did not impact the ranking.
Allocating money for state-run health insurer triggers another dispute in coalition
The decision has been opposed by analysts and private insurers too.
Slovaks with high blood pressure ignore treatment, experts say
Prevention also neglected in Slovakia.
Slovaks take less antibiotics than they used to
The consumption of antibiotics in Slovakia is the lowest it has been in the last 13 years; there are hopes the resistance of some bacteria to antibiotics might decrease too.
Coronavirus in Slovakia: Testing is targeted, imported infection reckoned with
Numbers of COVID-19 tests have dramatically decreased after Slovakia opened up.
Health care purges have started - 12 top managers gone within two months
Health care analysts question the speed of the removals and some replacements the minister has chosen.
Foreign doctors criticise changes enabling them to help during the coronavirus pandemic
Although they welcome the changes, foreign doctors point to several problematic points.
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