LOZ Discusses First Item of Memorandum with Minister Sasko

Bratislava, November 12 (TASR) - At its Tuesday's meeting with Health Minister Kamil Sasko (Voice-SD), the Doctor Union Association (LOZ) discussed the first item of the 2022 memorandum concerning the financing of hospitals and agreed that a working group needs to be formed to address the issue, LOZ head Peter Visolajsky reported after meeting the minister on Tuesday. The doctors haven't withdrawn their notices yet and insist on having the Government deal with the problems in the health sector. "It's crucial for us to fix this, so that it's clear what insurers actually pay hospitals for. We want to have standardised contracts between hospitals and insurers and be able to check them because that enables also checking the efficiency of hospitals. If you have a contract that's checkable, comparable between hospitals, it's easy to ascertain which hospital met its commitments, performed as many surgeries and treated as many patients as promised and which hospital didn't. So, on our behalf, we insist on having standardised contracts that will be transparent and public," explained Visolajsky. Visolajsky added that doctors are not entertaining the withdrawal of their notices at the moment and wish to go through all items of the referendum with the minister first. The next meeting has been slated for Thursday (November 14). mf