Anti-corruption courses for health workers

The state wants to send health workers to mandatory anti-corruption courses, set to be organised by the Slovak Health University in Bratislava, reads a proposal from the Health Ministry. The ministry's spokesman Peter Bubla claimed that the ministry will, in this manner, achieve its assigned goal to bolster the rule of law. According to health union's head Peter Visolajský, it's sad to have such an "absurd" proposal see the light of the day, as the legislation aims to affect doctors and nurses in the wake of sandals, for which responsibility lies mostly with hospital directors and ministry employees. "The purchase of an overpriced CAT scanner by Piešťany hospital in 2014 could serve as a good example of the inefficiency of the proposed measure. In this case, a doctor and nurse would have been sent to anti-corruption courses, despite the fact that it was them who drew attention to the case in the first place without any such re-education, whereas the rest of the hospital administrative board would have been left untouched by the law", added Visolajský. The unionists are calling upon Health Minister Viliam Čislák to study the Gorilla corruption case and attempt to figure out who really needs to take courses about corruption in health care.