Slovakia has the most efficient healthcare in Europe - how to make a dream a reality?
The evening Open Talk will bring a lively discussion of politicians and ex-politists about their vision for the Slovak healthcare system, so that one day it will become one of the most efficient healthcare systems in Europe. About why healthcare has not been a priority for various government sets and whether this may change in the future.
Hosts ITAPA Open Talk
Vladimír Lengvarský, Minister of Health of the Slovak Republic
Richard Raši, former Minister of Health of the Slovak Republic
Vladimír Baláž, Committee of the National Council of the Slovak Republic for Healthcare
Jana Bittó Cigániková, Committee of the National Council of the Slovak Republic for Healthcare
Chairman: Michal Kovačič
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Richard Raši
Ministry of Investment, Regional Development and Informatisation of the Slovak Republic
Richard Raši is a trained physician. He graduated from the Faculty of Medicine in Košice. He worked as a trauma surgeon, doctor of several sports teams, later as deputy director of the L. Pasteur Hospital in Košice, Director of the University Hospital in Bratislava and then in 2008 became the Minister of Health of the Slovak Republic. Since 2010…
Vladimír Lengvarský
He graduated from the Military Medical Academy in Hradec Králové, department of general medicine (1988-1993). In 1996, at the Institute for Further Education of Healthcare Workers in Bratislava, he obtained a 1st degree specialization - general medicine. He completed a three-year study in the field of "public health management expert" at the Slo…
Jana Bittó Cigániková
Committee of the National Council of the Slovak Republic for Health
Chairwoman of the National Council of the Slovak Republic Committee for Health Care, Member of the National Council of the Slovak Republic, SaS team leader for health care. She graduated from the Faculty of Public Administration of the University of Economics and Public Administration in Bratislava, Department of Public Administration Management…
Michal Kovačič
moderator
He completed high school studies at the Jura Hronac Gymnasium (1997 – 2001) and then a master's degree in law at the Faculty of Law of the Comenius University in Bratislava (2002 – 2009). Under the guidance of Ingrid Frohlichová, he devoted his diploma thesis to the issue of pension reform in Slovakia, and completed his defense on February 12, 2…
Vladimír Baláž
NsP Banská Bystrica
Since 2012, member of the National Council of the Slovak Republic and member of the Health Care Committee. Head of the Urological Clinic of the SZU FNsP FD Roosevelt Banská Bystrica, the main expert of the Ministry of Health of the SR for urology. For many years he worked in the management of FNsP FD Roosevelt Banská Bystrica (deputy for LPS, di…