Minister Šaško visited Liptov Hospital, Mikulášans ask him to re-evaluate the inclusion in the framework of optimization

Liptov Hospital with Polyclinic Dr. Ivana Stodola today, accompanied by the mayor of Liptovský Mikuláš Ján Blcháč, visited the Minister of Health Kamil Šaško. The personal interest he showed during his visit gives the Nicholas new hope that their four - year struggle to maintain health care to the extent that it was provided before optimizing the hospital network was not futile.
– SI am very pleased that I was able to verify the facts on the spot with all interested parties. It is clear from this visit that the former government did not take into account the strategic importance of the hospital in Liptovsky Mikulas. If we do not want to endanger tens of thousands of people in the region and hundreds of thousands of tourists a year, we are going to take steps to stabilise the situation here, stated the Minister.
Liptáci have the right to second-level treatmentsAfter the first noises about the planned optimization, Liptovsky mayor Ján Blcháč calls for a review of the decision of the former government, which according to him placed the Liptov Hospital to the lowest level based on incorrect information in the number of medical procedures performed and also without taking into account the real transport situation.
–To our doctors who can do only limited performances in the hospital at the lowest level, they drive to the urgent reception of the severely wounded, often on the border of life and death. Our citizens also have the right to be treated on a level of two or three, why they should travel beyond this level. In the last year, I myself have had a lot of examinations and medical procedures in our hospital, and I can't imagine that I would have to travel tens of miles for every single one, and then I was exhausted to return home. Imagine all those people who don't have a car, many or loved ones, and couldn't get to the treatment,The mayor described it.
Patients should be transported into a twin room, it works the other way aroundDrive times to second-level hospitals are much longer than those envisaged by the Ministry, which, according to the Deputy Director of Medical - Preventive Care and Mayor of the surgery department, is life threatening. In practice, patients who could not be treated at the first stage in our hospital were to be transported to Poprad or Ružomberok, but these hospitals were not able to receive this pressure. On the contrary, all the cases from there take us to Nicholas, He approached Tiny.

Millions invested in the hospitalThe hospital in Liptovský Mikuláš provides quality services, individual departments are innovative and equipped with new devices. Much money has traveled to its development in recent years. In December 2021, the new emergency revenue started to work, the total cost of building it, the instruments and the mobilisations amounted to EUR 1.83 million. In less than two years at an emergency, the new CT workplace was launched and the obstetric department was reconstructed for 200 thousand Euro last year. The construction of a new MRI building is currently under way for 830 thousand euros and the additional 1.5 million will cost the device itself, which the hospital will have to provide.
–I am pleased with the information that you are planning to open a new MRI workplace in the near future, restore the activity of child cardiology practice and expand the offer of outpatient health care. As well as using funds from the Recovery Plan, added the head of the health department. According to the Mayor of Mikulas, these major investments are a clear signal that our 165-year-old hospital deserves to be placed in the second regional level.
Practice and application are sought by local studentsQuality staff for Liptov Hospital is raised directly in the city of Secondary Health School, which was founded 75 years ago as one of the first secondary schools in Slovakia. Students are educated in the fields of practical nurse, dental assistant, masseur and sanitary, most of them are trained in the Mikulas hospital. Over a hundred graduates come out of its gates each year, who either continue their studies at college or seek priority in their neighborhood.
The most visited region has a hospital at the lowest levelA request for the inclusion of Liptovskýikuláš Hospital in the second level was also expressed by the inhabitants of the district itself, in 2022 they launched the first citizens' petition signed by 15000 people, the second one was supported by 7500 Liptákov last year. In case of transfer to the second category, we are immediately ready to provide even better care and take in new doctors. So that the inhabitants of Liptov, as well as domestic and foreign tourists receive top-quality health care, the deputy director Ján Drobčo added.
Liptov Hospital with Polyclinic MUDr. Ivana Stodola provides health care in the catchment area of the entire district of Liptovský Mikuláš with approximately 72,000 inhabitants and at the same time all visitors of our tourist-searched region, which annually visits about 750,000 people. Up to 25,000 patients receive emergency treatment each year, often 100 a day.