In the academic year 2023/2024 medical faculties in Slovakia will be able to accept 500 Slovak medics more than they are currently studying. At today's sitting, the ministers for health, finance and education agreed on this.
Currently she studies at medical faculties in one year of 690 medics from Slovakia. The rest of about 430 medics come from abroad and pay for the study themselves. Following negotiations with the deans of faculties by the Ministry of Health, it is possible to increase the number of medics in the year by another hundred students. At today's meeting, health, finance and education ministers agreed that since the coming school year, the state will pay medical faculties the real costs of medical studies and universities will be able to accept 400 more Slovak medics than at present. The Ministry of Finance proposed an increase of 500 students. This is a public offer. It is an offer of systematic increase of funding for Slovak medical faculties, underlined by Minister of Finance Igor Matovich. The cost of 500 medics per year is EUR 5 million. When we increase the number of medics and reduce the personal stress in hospitals, there will be even more,The Minister of Finance added: Negotiations with deans of medical faculties will follow. Minister of Health Vladimir Lengvarský discussed with deans of medical faculties to increase the number of medics. We all know that the current health system is a long run. I think this government has started this race and I believe that the results that will not be immediately and immediately will be in a few years, but will be mainly for our citizens, for our patients,The Minister for Health, Vladimir Lengvarsky, stressed. As the State Secretary of the MZ Lenka Dunajová Družkovská added, human potential is the most important thing we need for the medical profession not to leave after the study. The funds will be distributed proportionally among all medical faculties in Slovakia. As the Minister of Health has pointed out, the health department is taking steps to improve the conditions of health professionals, to raise their salaries as well as to encourage professional growth.
According to the Minister of Education of Ján Horecké Medical Faculty, it is important that they produce enough professional staff, doctors for hospitals and ambulances. Since the state has not, in the long term, reimbursed universities for the real costs of medical studies, the lack of funding compensates for the admission of foreign drug-self-payers. Most of them, however, do not remain active in Slovakia after graduation, but go back to their country. At the same time, the role of the state will be to create the conditions for medical professionals to stay in Slovakia after graduation. Currently, around 17% of young Slovak doctors go abroad after school. The state has already raised the basic salaries of health professionals to increase attractiveness, while also investing in improving working conditions.