Minister of Health of the Slovak Republic Zuzana Dolinková appointed as Director of the National Institute of Tuberculosis, Pulmonary Diseases and Chest Surgery Vyšné Hagy Slavka Rodák from 1 February 2024. It shall be appointed for a fixed period, until the post is filled by a successful tenderer, for a maximum of six months.
At the same time, it recalled on 31 January 2024 the current director of Ing. Jozef Poráč, MPH in accordance with the provision of § 100 (2) of Act No. 578/2004 Coll. on Health Care Providers, Health Care Workers, Health Organisations.
Ing. Slavko Rodák is a graduate of the University of Economics Bratislava. The director of the National Institute of Tuberculosis, Pulmonary Diseases and Chest Surgery Vyšné Hagy was from June 2022 to February 2023. It has been in the health sector since 2009. He worked, for example, in Poprad Hospital, where he was also a member of the board of directors between 2011 and 2015. Between 2018 and 2022 he was the director and member of the board of directors of Hospital Svidník, a.s.