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certainly appreciate that, thanks to this
MRI scanner, the examination time has
been reduced by one third compared
with the past. Doctors, in turn, are
able to examine more patients thanks
to this time saving. Whereas previously
up to 150 patients a week underwent MRI
scans, the figure is now 350. This machine
makes a major contribution to the early
detection of tumours, degenerative
neurological diseases, vascular anomalies,
and similar conditions.
The hospital is also opening a robotic
operating theatre. What will it bring
to patients?
We will be putting it into operation later this
year. It will be a technologically equipped
facility serving several surgical specialties
at once. They will have access to a surgical
robot called da Vinci. We expect this
multidisciplinary operating theatre to be
used intensively every day. It will be used
by the departments of urology, surgery,
gynaecology and ENT. Robotic surgery
brings lower blood loss during operations,
as well as less post-operative pain, and it
also contributes to faster recovery. Most
importantly, however, while achieving
comparable or even better results, we will
be able to shorten patients’ hospital stays.
What changes await the hospital
in the near future?
At present, we are putting the finishing
touches to the reconstruction of the Centre
for Mental Health, which our hospital
has operated since 2020 in cooperation
with the Trigon Association. The Czech
Prime Minister recently took an interest
in how this centre works. The government is
seeking to establish a total of 25 such centres
across the Czech Republic. The experience
gained in Ostrava will therefore certainly
prove valuable.
In any case, I would like to stress that
there are many more investment projects
within the wider reconstruction, but there
simply is not enough space here to list them
all.
Why does the hospital receive less
money for the same care than other
hospitals?
These are issues that resonate very
strongly from the perspective of Ostrava
City Hospital.
The reimbursement system is unfair
to facilities that provide care to a large
number of patients in their emergency
departments. Last year, our hospital treated
12,000 people brought in by ambulance,
which represented 44% of all such cases
in the whole of Ostrava. Yet it received
only 9 million crowns in lump-sum
reimbursements, whereas the university
hospital received 105 million crowns.
As for payments from health insurance
companies, in the Moravian-Silesian Region
up to 70% of care is covered by employee
health insurance funds, whose rates are
10 to 15% lower than those of the General
Health Insurance Company. Hospitals
in this region therefore receive less money
for the same care than hospitals in other
regions. At the same time, this difference
is by no means insignificant. We presented
the whole issue openly to the Prime
Minister and will, of course, welcome any
improvement.
Robocsurgeryreducesblood
loss,easespost-operave
pain,andspeedsuprecovery.
Vnitřní prostor nové hyperbarické komory | foto: Lukáš Kaboň