The petitioner shall: Ministry of Health of the Slovak Republic
Name of the petition: PHYSICIA/PYCIO
Text: We, the lower-signed citizens of the Slovak Republic, ask the Ministry of Health and the Government of the Slovak Republic to reconsider the forthcoming proposal to reform hospitals, which would make it impossible to have a hospital in Rimavská Sobota, the largest medical facility in the region.
It's quare: No.
Number of persons supporting the petition: 36 098 persons on 3 875 signature sheets in paper form
Date of delivery: 17.09.2021
Date of equipment: 06.10.2021
Type of equipment: Paragraph 5 (6) of Law No 85/1990 Coll. on petition law as amended
Reason for equipment:
On 17.09.2021, a non-data submission was delivered to the mail office of the Ministry of Health of the Slovak Republic (hereinafter referred to as "MZ SR"). – Giving away petition sheets signed by the President Petitions Committee, Daxner 35, 979 01 Rimavská Saturday, together with the annexes, by means of a note marked as PHYSICIA/PYCIO with petition sheets of 3 875 pieces in original form with 36 098 citizens' signatures. The Office of the Minister of Health referred the received documentation of a material nature within the meaning of the order of organisation of the Slovak Ministry of Health in the current version to the equipment of the Unit of Control, Supervision and Complaints (hereinafter referred to as "ÚKDaS") in cooperation with the Section of the Reform Agenda.
ÚKDaS as the organizational unit responsible for handling complaints and petitions in the material scope of MZ SR received documentation and after assessing material and formalities of the documentation received required by the relevant provisions of the petition law found that only submission designated as PHYSICIA/PYCIO, with 3 875 pieces of petition sheets in the original version, a petition according to the cit. of the Act registered by the ÚKDaS in the Special Registry Report as petition under sp. zn. Pet 4/2021 with the following wording: We, the lower-signed citizens of the Slovak Republic, ask the Ministry of Health and the Government of the Slovak Republic to reconsider the forthcoming proposal to reform hospitals, which would make it impossible to have a hospital in Rimavská Sobota, the largest medical facility in the region.
In view of the fact that the petition is in the nature of the application, the Ministry of the Slovak Republic is obliged to make a petition within the meaning of Article 5 (6) of the Law on Petitions, according to which, if the content of the petition indicates that the petition cannot be dealt with under paragraph 5, the public authority competent to handle the petition containing the application or proposal shall assess its content and send a written reply together with the statement of reasons to the representative within the period referred to in paragraph 5. At the same time, given the fact that more than 10 000 persons supported the petition by their signatures, MZ SR is obliged to deal with it also in accordance with the provisions of § 5d of the Act on Petitions, according to which:
- (1) If the petition is supported by at least 10 000 persons, it shall be discussed by the competent public authority with a representative and a petition committee, with responsibility for the whole territory of the Slovak Republic.
- (4) A public authority shall not be obliged to negotiate a petition if it fully complies with its content.
In accordance with the provisions of § 5 (6) in conjunction with § 5d (4) of the Act on petition law MZ SR submitted written notification to the representative of the outcome of the petition from which we choose.
MZ SR does not consider the content of the text of the petition, we quote A draft reform of hospitals that would make it impossible for a hospital in Rimavská Sobota to exist True and not based on the upcoming draft law LP/2021/437 Act on the categorisation of institutional health care and on the amendment of certain laws (hereinafter referred to as the "Proposal Act'). The draft law deals not with the disturbance of hospitals, but with their transformation to a certain level, according to the provision of programme profiles. The final form of the network of specific hospitals is not yet binding, but the draft law does not make it impossible to have any of the hospitals and hence hospitals in Rimavská Sobota. For this reason, the MR SR is in favour of meeting the content of the petition and therefore there was no reason to discuss the content of the petition within the meaning of Article 5d (4) of the Act on petition law with the representative and the petition committee. At the same time, we would like to point out that the draft law was published on the internet portal in the framework of inter-ministerial commentary proceedings www.slov-lex.sk and was also made available to the general public for comments within 30.08.2021. The inter-ministerial commentary procedure was closed, evaluated, MZ SR submitted a draft law to the Government Office of the Slovak Republic and the government of Slovakia approved the draft law at its meeting on 29.9.2021.
Place: Bratislava– Date:8 October 2021