At the invitation of the State Secretary of the Slovak Republic Lenka Dunajová Družkovská and with her personal participation, a meeting of representatives of the trade unions of the Health Service and the Slovak Chamber of Medical Paramedics was held yesterday in the afternoon at the Ministry of Health of the Slovak Republic.
The topics addressed by the participants were mainly those that brought rescuers in Bratislava to the announcement of strike alert. These include, in particular, the issues of pay increases, the competences of health emergency workers, risk factors in the workplace, and differences in the occupational health service assessments themselves with employers. The president of the Basic Trade Union Organization at the Rescue Service Bratislava, MUDr. Zuzana Pukancová identified working conditions, environment and risk factors that rescuers face on the ground as a key problem for rescuers.
The health department is giving a supportive hand to these topics - we should get to know the outcome of the decisions by the end of June on health pay. In the event of a warning of a divergence in the assessment of the occupational health services of individual providers of ZZS, the Ministry has promised to examine the problem of ensuring state health supervision by the Public Health Office. As regards the competences of medical emergency workers, as well as their lack of remuneration, representatives of the ZZS noted that this has long been the case, and the Ministry promised to present a new concept of competences in the autumn of this year.
Trade union representatives talked about declaring a strike alert as a ring raised, because so far no one has communicated with them about their problems: We are glad that after 1.5 years we reached the MZ SR and that we will bring the message to our members, Mgr. Róbert Nadaský and Mgr. Lukáš Jurina At the same time, they promised that they would not endanger patients in any way.
The health department of the guests present also informed about reforms in Component 11 of the Recovery and Resilience Plan, which deals specifically with the opportunities to improve health care provision in the field of rescue, where the priority is to ensure for 90% of the population of the ZSS range within 15 minutes, as well as access to life-threatening conditions within 8 minutes for 80% of the population of the population, which is to be achieved by optimizing the network of ZSS stations, by building and reconstructing settlements, as well as by renewing the fleet or by redefinition of emergency care.
State Secretary MZ SR L. Dunajová Družkovská finished the meeting with a proposal for its re-implementation in September this year, when the health sector will bring more concrete solutions or results of its promised activities.
