VŽada SR approved the proposal for the implementation of the superstructure and building modifications in the Children's Faculty Hospital Košice. The financing of this project will be made out of capital expenditure from the state budget of the health sector chapter and the expected construction costs will be nearly EUR 36 million.
Current DFN premises Košice must be modernised and expanded. Our goal is to provide modern and accessible healthcare for children and accompanying persons, to improve the quality and efficiency of healthcare provided, while creating conditions that will motivate healthcare staff to operate in our hospitals, said Minister for Health Zuzana Dolinková.
The Minister specified that The extension will allow the renovation of both spatial and qualitatively obsolete buildings in which the last 40 years have not been invested. At the same time, it will significantly streamline clinical and technical-operational processes, extend the scope and spectrum of healthcare provided to the IV. level hospital facility, improve the quality of healthcare, not least to create a pleasant environment for patients as well as staff. The hospital will be more energy efficient, the safety of workplaces will be improved as well as the quality of the premises for patients and hygiene standards will be increased.
The Ministry of Health of the Slovak Republic has already allocated funds in favour of DFN Košice to individual stages of project documentation amounting to 931 thousand Euro, which are continuously drawn. It is expected that construction works should start in December 2025 and the conclusion of the approval procedure is planned for June 2028.
Children's faculty hospital currently has poor premises for patients, lack of spacious rooms so that parents can be hospitalized with children, the Neo-natal intensive medicine department is already 20 years on the 16th floor in rented premises of the University Hospital L. Pasteur Košice.

Minister of Health Zuzana Dolinková visited the Children's Faculty Hospital Košice during the June business trip to Košice. The head of the health department has personally met and discussed with the chief of the Department of Neonatal intensive medicine MUDr. Vanda Chovanová. At the meeting, they discussed the organized collection, but especially the current problems that the hospital and the neonatological department are most concerned with. Madam Mayor informed that their campaign continued. The hospital administration and the health minister expressed their willingness and willingness to communicate in search of solutions to improve conditions for children's patients and their parents. Evidence of this was presented information about the planned conversion and extension of DfN KE. Ms Primárka welcomed and appreciated the health minister's approach and approach.