Survivors whose relatives died in 2021 from Covid-19 in an establishment at least 100 kilometres from their residence may apply for reimbursement of their transfer costs. The Ministry of Health of the Slovak Republic published a model application on its website: https://www.health.gov.sk/Sources/Covid-19/Documents/Refund-cost application-transfer-dead-patient-Covid-19.pdf .Odo today, the survivors can actually apply for a financial contribution of up to EUR 1000. The application shall contain basic information on the applicant and the deceased patient, which shall include the submission of basic documents, originals or officially certified copies, namely:1. confirmation of the medical establishment of the treatment and dismissal of the deceased patient or release report,
- certificates of service of carriage,
- proof of payment of transport,
- confirmation of the funeral service of the number of kilometres and the price for them.Applications can be made in several ways:
- personally at the department office, at: Ministry of Health, financing section, Limbova 2, 837 52 Bratislava,
- a registered consignment,
- courier. The deadline for applications shall be 30 June 2022. The refund covers the eligible period from 1.1.2021 to 31.12.2021. The resort shall ask applicants to also indicate their functional email address in the application for mutual communication. By its resolution of 26 January 2022, the government of the Slovak Republic addressed the survivors in the most pandemic regions affected, whose relatives had to be transferred to free beds of the covid departments in facilities significantly distant from the place of residence. These were patients who needed artificial pulmonary ventilation.