The main hygiene officer of the Slovak Republic, Ján Mikas, at the request of the Minister of Health Marek Krajčí, gave guidance in view of the favourable epidemiological situation, which allows patients to visit the hospital health conditions also at the time of the occurrence of COVID-19. The presence of a father in childbirth may also be possible. This Guideline allows healthcare facilities to grant exemptions from the ban on visits to berth compartments under clearly defined hygiene rules and anti-epidemic measures. Recommended procedures have also been developed for escorts and visits to patients, as well as for visits by the priest to perform spiritual services to patients during the epidemic COVID-19.For adult bed facilities:- a visit to a patient in the terminal stage of the disease - a visit is permitted at the same time by two close persons, - a visit to a priest or clergyman in the severely ill and dying for sacraments,- one procession and postpartum care,- one person for accompanying the patient at hospital,- one person in a patient with mental health disorders such as dementia, learning impairment or autism (if absence would cause states of anxiety of a person), - with psychiatric conditions as indicated by the doctor if absence of a person may adversely affect the results of the treatment process,- a visit to a patient in artificial sleep at the OAIM, if from a medical point of view this visit, indicated e.g. after severe traumatic assignments, coma vigile etc.For children's berths:- accompanied by a child patient,- visiting a child in palliative care to relatives of the child, including other children living with parents in a common household (without signs of respiratory and/or gastrointestinal infection).Measures to visit newborn units:- minimise visits to one to two persons, parents (persons should not rotate, the newborn should visit the same person repeatedly),- follow general arrangements for visits and parades (thinning, hand hygiene and use of PPE) during the COVID-19 pandemic Parents should also be able to participate in the care of their child to the extent appropriate to the epidemiological situation and taking into account the construction breakdown of the department and the possibility to comply with the required level of hygiene-epidemiology regime. The newborn unit shall assess these conditions and determine the possibility and conditions according to them

the presence of parents throughout the day. Parents should not be viewed as visits, any parental restrictions should only be accepted at a time of significant risk of spread of SARS-CoV-2. Parents are required to adhere strictly to the set conditions. Measures to be followed by visits or accompanying persons:- they enter the constitutional medical facility through a marked input and are sorted in the filter,- the condition of the visit is a pre-agreed permission to visit from the responsible person of the department with an agreed time and anti-epidemic measures,- in case of detection of body temperature above 37.0 °C or other symptoms of acute respiratory disease (e.g. cough or dyspnoea) leave the facility without delay and if necessary seek medical care. Further and more detailed information:https://web.archive.org/web/20200608104128id /http://www.uvzsr.sk/docs/info/colid19/Recommendation main hygienika SR navsteva guide patient v ZZ.pdf