Health care
News on medicine and health care in Slovakia
Health Ministry calls the planned reduction of €232 million a technical matter.
Verbal and physical attacks are aimed against their family members, too.
Facilities supposed to be divided into five categories since 2024.
Representatives of healthcare professions have signed a declaration with a number of demands.
But the shortage of nurses is in the thousands.
Health insurer calls on clients to get their annual dental check-ups before the end of the year.
Plan includes hospital reform and addresses health insurer profits.
Some treatments had to be suspended or even cancelled by a doctor or a hospital.
Slovakia has 1.4 billion euros to spend on its health care facilities, mostly from the EU Recovery Fund.
If the situation doesn’t improve, 200 ageing doctors will leave their posts annually.
The cabinet approved several changes to healthcare laws. Some concern vaccination.
The Health Ministry has pointed to complications caused by the new Covid strains.
The pandemic did not impact the ranking.
The decision has been opposed by analysts and private insurers too.
Prevention also neglected in Slovakia.
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.
Numbers of COVID-19 tests have dramatically decreased after Slovakia opened up.
Health care analysts question the speed of the removals and some replacements the minister has chosen.
Although they welcome the changes, foreign doctors point to several problematic points.
When the coronavirus epidemic is gone, we will have to deal with an epidemic of obesity and dementia.
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- 3. Hooligans from abroad came to Trnava trained and organised, system failed to detect them
- 4. Coronavirus in Slovakia: 3,480 new cases confirmed (graphs)
- 5. News digest: Slovakia reports more than 1,000 Covid hospitalisations
- 6. World-famous Slovak opera singer dies at age 74
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- 8. News digest: First districts will switch to black-tier
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- 1. Count Lanfranconi would have been pleased. Letter "N" back on Lafranconi Bridge
- 2. Trnava football match ends after 15 minutes due to fight between fans
- 3. Coronavirus in Slovakia: 3,480 new cases confirmed (graphs)
- 4. News digest: First districts will switch to black-tier
- 5. Four examples of how artificial intelligence is used in education
- 6. Hooligans from abroad came to Trnava trained and organised, system failed to detect them
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