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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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- 1. Slovakia enters all-out lockdown
- 2. Incomers from countries where Omicron was confirmed asked to report to authorities
- 3. News digest: Omicron variant changes quarantine rules and flight schedule
- 4. Coronavirus in Slovakia: 7,069 new cases confirmed (graphs)
- 5. Which are the largest law firms in Slovakia?
- 6. Lockdown it is. Or is it?
- 7. Slovakia responds to the Omicron variant. All incomers from select countries will have to self-isolate
- 8. Grown in Slovakia – How one man nurtured his Bulgarian vegetable-growing grandparents’ roots
- 9. Lockdown decreases interest in vaccination
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- 3. Coronavirus in Slovakia: 7,069 new cases confirmed (graphs)
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