The Ministry of Health of the Slovak Republic announced a re-call called Creation of new beds of subsequent care. Eligible applicants may apply for a maximum contribution of EUR 41 000, VAT excluded/1 bed. Applications may be submitted from 20 November 2024. The patients must come first and have the right to first-class healthcare. I am pleased that the Recovery and Resilience Plan brings significant investments into the sector, which will be used this time to create post-care beds in Slovak hospitals, and the Minister of Health Kamil Šaško approached.
The creation of a minimum of 650 follow-up beds shall be ensured by using the relaxed capacity of acute and chronic beds after optimisation of the hospital network. The following care beds will serve to treat patients after hospitalization in acute beds.
In order to effectively implement the call, the Ministry established the application of 2 variants of eligible activities. For the option "selected regions', applicants may submit their applications from 20.11.2024 to 20.12.2024, for the variant "percentage distribution', from 21.12.2024 to 31.1.2025.
Constitutional health facilities are eligible applicants. Applicants are obliged to provide healthcare in accordance with Law No 576/2004 Z. z. z. (on health care) and No 540/2021 Z. z. (on the categorisation of institutional health care), provided byFollow-up healthcareand nursing.
The total allocation of the call is 22 971,259,15 EUR, VAT excluded.