Hospitals will receive a capital injection of almost €16.5 million for this year. The money originally intended for the purchase of vaccines and medicines and other expenditure related to COVID-19 was allocated to capital expenditure. Tietthe funds will be used mainly to address emergency states of subordinate organizations of the Ministry of Health of the Slovak Republic.
The financial resources mentioned above will also be invested in the technical equipment of hospitals and national institutions, bringing better and safer healthcare to patients. I am delighted that the working meeting at the Ministry of Finance has been successful, resulting in a package of money that will go where it is needed,' said Minister of Health Zuzana Dolinková.
Capital expenditure will go to 12 medical devices. The biggest investments will be received by the University Hospital Bratislava, almost 5.96 million euros for a total of 52 projects. They will be used to build operating halls, digital mobile X-rays with C-ramen, sterilizers, purchase of USG apparatus, mammography and ophthalmological microscopes. The medical equipment warehouse or the orthopaedic clinic facilities will also be reconstructed.
National Institute of Children's Diseases in Bratislava will receive more than 640 thousand Euro for 6 projects. The funds will be used to reconstruct the Clinic of Children's Hematology and Oncology, to purchase 2 pieces of incubators for Children's Clinic of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Medicine and 3 pieces of heating beds for the Neonatological Clinic of Intensive Medicine LF UK and NÚDCH.
The National Cancer Institute will receive more than 1.1 million Euro for 4 projects. For example, the gastroenterological department will be expanded and a new pathological anatomy department will be built.
The funds will also go to Eastern Slovakia. Faculty Hospital with Polyclinic J.A. Reimana Prešov will receive more than 2.6 million euros for 4 projects, for example, for the reconstruction of air conditioning equipment in the paediatric pavilion, X-ray apparatus or angiographic system with accessories for invasive cardiology.
Children's Faculty Hospital Košice has 1,75 million Euro for 2 projects. The funds will be used to reconstruct sewers and sewage treatment plants and 10 top-class breathing appliances for artificial lung ventilation.
Martin University Hospital will travel less than 1.8 million Euro to 2 projects, namely the reconstruction and extension of the UNM Psychiatric Clinic Clinic and the purchase of operating tables.
Capital expenditure will also be provided to the Faculty Hospitals (FN) Nitra (630 thousand Euro), FNsP Nové Zámky (60 thousand Euro), FN Trnava (1.1 million Euro), further Healing for long-term ill Štiavnička (26 thousand Euro) and National Institute of Tuberculosis, Pulmonary Diseases and Chest Surgery Vyšné Hagy (above 230 thousand Euro).
The requirements of health facilities and national institutions for the provision of capital expenditure were assessed according to the Methodological instruction to submit applications for the inclusion of the investment project in the priorized list, the development of the investment plan and the investment schedule of the Ministry of Health of the Slovak Republic. According to point 3 of Article 10 of that Methodological instruction, the adequacy and scope of the submitted emergency documentation for each requirement has been assessed. In accordance with point 5 of Article 10 Methodological instruction and budgetary measure of Ministry of Finance No.10/2023, their financial coverage was ensured.
On 8.11.2023, the Ministry of Health requested at a working meeting at the Ministry of Finance of the Slovak Republic to implement a budgetary measure for the realization of unused funds originally intended for expenditure related to COVID-19. The funds were reallocated to capital expenditure intended to deal with emergency states of subordinate organizations of the Ministry of Health of the Slovak Republic. The total amount is EUR 16 435 528.
The State Budget Act No 526/2022 originally approved binding State Budget Indicators for 2023 for the chapter of the Ministry of Health of the Slovak Republic allocated to the purchase of vaccines and medicines and other expenditure related to COVID-19.