Minister of Finance Igor Matovič and Minister of Health Vladimír Lengvarský signed a memorandum of cooperation on Wednesday Resorts. The document defines 17 austerity, system and value measures; which are intended to significantly improve the functioning of health care in Slovakia.
Saving measures in the memorandum can bring this sector only this year up to 50 million extra euros and so have the potential to provide resources to other health sector priorities. For example, electronisation Health (e-lab or e-order), transparent rules for exemptions for medicines or more effective management of General Health Insurance.
The memorandum is the result of several monthly negotiations. All measures should lead to more efficient use of funds in health care, which has been severely tested for two years by a pandemic like the world of He hasn't seen it in decades. said Minister for Health Vladimír Lengvarsky at a joint press conference. The main objective of the Memorandum is to ensure better health care and to find internal efficiency in the system. And the Ministry of Finance wants to be helpful in this regard,completed Minister for Finance Igor Matovich.
The Memorandum of Cooperation is the next joint step of the departments to help health care and directly related to the release of funds in EUR 365 million in public health insurance. Any funding is not effective in the long term without adoption systemic measures. Part of this amount was also conditional on the conclusion of contracts with State hospitals, which the MSI has managed to meet.