The petitioner shall: Ministry of Health of the Slovak Republic

Name of the petition:
The employees of the Geriatric Department of FNsP J.A.Reiman in Prešov for maintaining acute geriatric departments in Slovakia

It's quare: No.

Number of persons supporting the petition: 58

Date of delivery: 29.06.2023

Date of equipment: 03.08.2023

Type of equipment: Paragraph 5 (6) of Law No 85/1990 Coll. on petition law as amended - not evaluated

Reason for equipment:
On 29.06.2023, the submission of 26.06.2023 was delivered to the mail office of the Ministry of Health of the Slovak Republic (hereinafter referred to as "MZ SR"). The employees of the Geriatric Department of FNsP J.A.Reiman in Prešov for maintaining acute geriatric departments in Slovakiawhich is served by the Geriatric Department of FNsP J.A.Reiman in Prešov. The petitioning committee and the signature of the petitioner shall be mentioned in the submission. The submission was delivered with annexes, namely 3 pcs of signature sheets in documentary form, also in photocopies marked as "Petition of employees of the Geriatric Department of FNsP J.A.Reiman in Prešov for the maintenance of acute geriatric departments in the Slovak Republic" stating that the original signatures on the petition are with the representative of the Petition Committee at the Geriatria Department. FNsP J.A.R. Prešov.
MZ SR received documentation and after assessing the content as well as the formal particulars of the documents received, namely the submission marked as "Petition of employees of the Geriatric Department of FNsP J.A.Reiman in Prešov for the maintenance of acute geriatric departments in Slovakia" as well as 3 pcs of petition sheets in documentary form marked as "Petition of employees of the Geriatric Department of FNsP J.A.Reiman in Prešov for the maintenance of acute geriatric departments in Slovakia" in the context of the provisions of the Act on petition law registered the documentation delivered as petitions under zn. Pet 8/2023 but with certain shortcomings. MZ SR within the meaning of § 5 (4) of the Law on Petitions by letter dated 30.06. 2023 called on the petitioner to remedy the deficiencies identified within the legal time limit and with guidance. The deficiencies of the petition were corrected by letter dated 26.06.2023 received MZ SR on 17.07.2023.

Since the petition received is in the nature of the application, the Ministry of the Slovak Republic, as a public authority responsible for its execution, is obliged to arrange the petition in question pursuant to § 5 (6) of the Act on petition law, in which, if it is apparent from the contents of the petition that the petition cannot be dealt with pursuant to § 5 (5) of the Act on petition law, the public authority responsible for the execution of the petition containing the request or proposal will assess its content and send a written reply together with the statement of reasons to the representative within the period under § 5 (5) of the Act on petition law.
In accordance with the above provisions of the law on petition law of MZ SR as a public authority materially competent to handle the petition, he submitted the following reply to the representative.
The optimisation of the network of hospitals is based, inter alia, on approved medical programmes, which are defined in Decree No. 316/2022 Coll. on the categorization of institutional care. The allocation of a particular medical programme includes an obligation for the hospital to provide the programmes in question, whether in the form of compulsory programmes at the various levels of hospitals or in the form of supplementary programmes, provided that they are approved by the Ministry. Individual medical programmes constitute the scope of health care and, if their hospital is assigned or approved, this imposes an obligation on it to provide them in their entirety with compulsory medical services.
Thus, the medical programme does not imply the obligation of the hospital to have individual departments and can therefore be provided in different departments, clinics, medical clusters or in a way of shared beds. The organisation of hospitals will continue to be fully responsible for the management of hospitals after 1 January 2024, is not defined by that decree and is not defined by any other legislation providing for the optimisation of the hospital network.
For completeness, geriatric care is defined in two medical programmes:

By sending a letter to MZ SR to the representative of the result of the execution of the petition entitled "Petition of employees of the Geriatric Department of FNsP J.A.Reiman in Prešov for the maintenance of acute geriatric departments in Slovakia" he considers the petition to be equipped in accordance with the provisions of § 5 (6) of the Act on petition law.

Place: In Bratislava– Date:8 August 2023