Three quarters of adult Slovaks in the spa are treated for musculoskeletal diseases. This stems from the latest published statistics of the National Center of Health Information (NCZI). The attendance in the spa increased year -on -year and reached the level of the pandemic. Meeting in particular they have Domestic patients who pay the spa treatment themselves. TASR informed about this NCZI communication specialist Simona Uhlárová Jarošová.
“Motion system diseases have long been a significant prevailing indication of spa treatment in adults with permanent residence in the Slovak Republic. In 2024, patients with these diseases accounted for 74.3 percent (in the number of 108 284 persons) of all the adults of adults, ” approached Uhlárová Jarošová. She added that she followed Treatment of non -mayuberculous respiratory tract diseases and circulatory diseases.
She explained that Children were most commonly treated for non -maybe respiratory diseases. Motion system diseases have been treated in 32 percent of children. In Age group under 19 years of age spa treatment most often concerned scoliosis, allergic rhinitis and asthma. While u both adults and seniors prevailed Back pain, disc disorders and other spine diseases.
As the NCZI data shows, last year the number of domestic self -payers increased by almost a third compared to the average of the pandemic. “In 2024, 172,651 patients stopped treatment in spa facilities in Slovakia, which was 3.3 percent more than 2023,” It was specified by Uhlárová Jarošová.
NCZI spokeswoman Alena Krčová said that Health insurance companies paid a treatment stay of 39 percent of patients with permanent residence in the Slovak Republic, The remaining 61 percent of patients paid their own stay. “Compared to 2023, the number of self -payers stayed by almost 8 percent last year, the number of stays with payment from the health insurance company has not changed significantly,” Informed Krčová spokeswoman.
Added that For the first time since the end of the pandemic, the level of traffic was exceeded, When was treated in the spa before her arrival average 169,965 persons per year. “This was mainly due to the accommodation of self-payers with permanent residence in Slovakia, which grew by almost a third last year compared to the average of 2015-2019,” She made it. She noted that stays of foreign clients still did not reach the level of attendance before the pandemic.
Data also illustrates that Spa treatment was most often used by domestic patients aged 65 and more and 55 to 64 years. More than 60 percent of these stays paid themselves. “Most clients (40.9 percent) spent in spa care Four to seven days and most of them were self -payers with permanent residence in Slovakia, ” Krčová pointed.
