Yesterday, Thursday 14.7.2022 in the afternoon, a meeting of representatives of one of the professional organizations in the health sector, the Slovak Chamber of Medical and Technical Workers, led by the president of Iveta Šluchová, took place in the Slovak Republic with representatives of the health department
One of the main topics of the working meeting was information on the ongoing discussions of stakeholders on the increase in salaries, while the State Secretary assured those present that the negotiations concern all health professionals and medical and technical professions: All participants in these negotiations are interested in raising salaries in the health sector. Discussions are based on analyses of the background to the issue, facts and data, and therefore appear to be long or complicated. We want to do it, but we want to do it well.
The representatives of the Chamber also mentioned the requirement for the implementation of the M. Jankechová together with S. Bodnárová representatives of the professional chamber assured that it is an important concern of the resort to solve problems from practice together and that the Ministry will deal with all comments, whether proposals from their side, in the amendment of Decree No. 321/2005 Coll. In the decree, the scope of the activities of individual health professions, each in a different structure, and says M. Jankechová and continues: We intend to redefine the competences of health professions, establish the right terminology ....; the Ministry wants and will address this topic.
Partners from the Slovak Chamber of Medical and Technical Workers also expressed their thanks for the appointment of the main expert in medical laboratory activities, which so far has not been present in the structure of the main experts of the Ministry of Health. Mgr. Helena Gavur became the main expert.