MPs Will Discuss Health Legislation via Fast-tracked Proceedings
4. februára 2025 17:32
Bratislava, February 4 (TASR) - In a vote on Tuesday, Parliament decided that MPs will discuss the legislative amendments, which are part of the agreement with the Medical Trade Union Association (LOZ), via a fast-tracked legislative procedure.
The adoption of the bills was a condition set by the medical unions at the end of last year for them to withdraw their mass resignation notices.
According to the agreement with the trade unions, the changes should concern an increase in doctors' salaries, the enactment of staffing standards in hospitals or the reduction of working hours of medical staff in hospitals. The obligations of health insurance companies and the Health-care Supervision Office (UDZS) should also be modified.
Health Minister Kamil Sasko (Voice-SD) signed in December 2024 an agreement with the LOZ on behalf of the government to set up social reconciliation in the health-care sector. In it, the government committed itself to fulfilling a number of the medical trade unionists' demands. The conclusion of the agreement prevented a collapse of hospitals, which was threatened due to the resignation notices of more than 3,300 doctors. The doctors returned to the hospitals on condition that the government will adopt bills by the end of February 2025 as it was agreed. Otherwise, the doctors will leave the hospitals in March.
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