Today Minister Zuzana Dolink accepted Ambassador Gabriella Sancisi of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. The topics of the meeting were: bilateral cooperation between the two countries in the field of health, Dutch investors in the Slovak health sector, as well as thank you for donating specialized baths for patient transport. This meeting is merely confirmation that the cooperation between both countries is extremely active and is continuing to deepen.
The results of intensive high-level exchanges between Slovakia and the Netherlands, as in the case of the Memorandum of Understanding in the field of cooperation, exchange of know-how, innovative treatment, research and science related to children's oncology, will be enjoyed, said Minister Zuzana Dolink.
By concluding a Memorandum of Understanding between the Clinic of Children's Hematology and Oncology of the Faculty of Medicine of Comenius University and the National Institute of Children's Diseases and the Centre of Princess Máxima in Utrecht, bilateral cooperation focuses on providing opportunities for the exchange of experts, trainings and cooperation, or on recommending patients from the Clinic of Children's Hematology and Oncology to the Princess Máxima Center for complicated treatments that cannot be carried out in Bratislava. Cooperation also includes the design and launch of clinical trials, support for the development of a biobank and a test and data centre in Bratislava to facilitate preclinical and clinical studies or molecular and genomic diagnosis of paediatric cancers in order to improve diagnostic methods.
The Minister of Health appreciated the efforts of Dutch investors to assist the health system in Slovakia, especially in the field of oncology, which can only make a positive contribution to the already existing activities of Dutch companies in Slovakia. Participants also talked about the planned visit of the Minister to the Princess Máxima Center, in order to develop further cooperation and support the treatment of children's oncology in Slovakia.
Ambassador Gabrielle Sancisi thanked Minister Z. Dolink for the recent donation of two specialized tanks to transport psychiatric patients. The vehicles were provided by P. Pinella Psychiatric Hospital in Pezinok and the Psychiatric Hospital in Hronovce. This is a milestone in the joint efforts to strengthen mental health care, based on cooperation in the field of forensic psychiatry between our countries.