In view of the favourable epidemiological situation, the health system is starting to function fully again. Minister for Health Marek Krajčí reported today that there will be no need for a 14-day quarantine before the planned operations. Pre-operative examinations will be carried out again by general practitioners or internists and testing for COVID-19 disease will only be considered in patients at risk after indication by the physician. From an epidemiological point of view, the disease has been eliminated to a minimum, Notes Minister for Health Marek Krajčedwhich states that it is important for health care to be fully operational again. He informed that the main experts would issue guidelines and then he would issue a minister's order on the basis of them. At the same time, the Minister for Health would like to continue, even after the current situation of telemedicine, so that patients continue to be ordered by phone and do not gather in the offices. General adult doctors are already performing preventive examinations, releasing vaccinations and pre-surgical examinations, informed the deputy general physician Adriana Šimková. Pediatricians are already doing vaccinations, parents should make a telephone call for a specific time, added chief paediatrician Elena Prokopová. At the same time, the Minister of Health stated that there is sufficient protective equipment for doctors at the warehouse of the Administration of the State Substantive Reserves.
