The opposition movement Slovakia and KDH appeal for an agreement between the government and the Medical Trade Union (LOZ). According to the movement, the Minister of Health Kamil Šaško (Hlas-SD) should Slovakia change your advisors and start listening to health professionals. So far, according to them, it does not seem that it will he wanted to make an agreement with LOZ. The KDH calls again for the earliest possible convening of a round table by the President of the Slovak Republic, Peter Pellegrini, on the current situation.
KDH criticizes that even two weeks before the end of the year it is not clear who will take care of patients in hospitals from January 1, 2025. The movement perceives the situation in the sector with concern. “In the interest of all patients, we once again call on the President of the Slovak Republic to convene a round table in the coming days or hours and try to moderate a solutionin which all parties keep their face and especially the constitutional right of citizens to health care will not be threatened,” said KDH.
The Slovak Movement criticizes the advisers of the Minister of Health. “We don’t know who is advising the minister how to proceed, but they are giving him very bad advice, because his actions so far have not indicated that he wants to come to an agreement. He should urgently change his advisers, stop listening to financial groups, biased as experts and should listen carefully to health professionals and patients,” noted the member of the National Council of the Slovak Republic for the movement and ex-minister of health Marek Krajčí. At the same time, he pointed out that hundreds of doctors’ overtime resignations will cause a problem in some regions in the week before Christmas ensuring continuous health care.
The Minister of Health called on Monday afternoon extraordinary session of the sectoral tripartite. He believes that the result of the meeting will be income to compromises with LOZ. Medical trade unionists request negotiations in a narrower format. Above 3,300 doctors from hospitals across Slovakia resigned as a sign of dissatisfaction with the situation in the healthcare sector. They are willing to withdraw their resignations if the government will start fulfilling their demands. In particular, they insist on fulfilling the points of the memorandum from 2022, which the then government cabinet signed with the medical trade unions.
