As reported by the TASR agency, the government will submit the relevant law to the parliament, which should consider it in an abbreviated procedure and should apply from January 1, 2025, when the doctors’ notice periods expire.
The change in the law introduces the possibility of declaring an emergency situation due to the critical unavailability of institutional health care. A state of emergency could be declared for a maximum of 60 days with the possibility of a double extension. In an extraordinary situation, the doctors’ notice period would expire only on the day of its revocation.
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An emergency situation is defined as “disruption of the provision of health care when institutional health care providers cannot provide health care in the scope, quality and time necessary to protect life and health or prevent serious damage to health.” If such a situation were to arise, the doctors’ resignations would not take effect. In this way, the state wants to ensure a sufficient number of doctors in hospitals.
Minister of Health Kamil Šaško (Hlas) rejected the information that doctors would be threatened with prison in the event that they do not start work and as a result there is harm to health or life. “The legitimate aim of the law is to ensure the protection of life and health of the inhabitants of the Slovak Republic, the protection of the healthcare system and the prevention of interference with other rights and freedoms of persons,” said Šaško.
Slower salary growth
As part of the consolidation of public finances, Fico’s government decided that doctors’ salaries will grow more slowly than originally planned. In protest against this move, 3,300 hospital doctors filed their resignations. At the beginning of November, the Slovak parliament partially canceled the planned cuts in the increase in the salaries of medical professionals, but the doctors have not yet withdrawn their resignations.
Slovak doctors also filed mass resignations in 2011 during the government of Prime Minister Iveta Radičová, which led to the declaration of a state of emergency. At that time, thirty Czech military doctors helped in Slovak hospitals. The year before last, the doctors also demanded an increase in salaries and promises of other measures in the health care sector from the then government.
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