"Sometimes we as citizens and society we are left with the impression that children's health care moves from scandal to scandal. Sometimes it really seems that way. Why did it cause such a scandal? Because this is not the first time that the desire to build a private children's hospital bearing this name has appeared as a proposal. This time, however, this decision was approved, and it was approved under a complete information blackout.
This was stated to BNT by Maria Brestnička from the National Children's Network and a member of the public council for the construction of the National Children's Hospital.
She added that neither the public council nor the public were informed of the decision.
"Actually, I had to. I hasten to say that we have nothing against private initiative - it is important, it has its time and place, but in the context in which we currently find ourselves, a private initiative actually threatens none other than the National Children's Hospital.< /p>
She pointed out that when approving a hospital, the main criterion that should be looked at is whether there is a need for it. Brestnička was adamant that there is a need for a national children's hospital.
"Which, however, is very different from a private hospital with pediatric beds. These are two completely different concepts.
In her words, the National Children's Hospital should be "at the top of the pyramid", providing possible "the most modern and complex care".
"This is precisely why we have been insisting from the very beginning that this hospital be built on the basis of analysis. Realistically which needs of the children will it meet. We are happy that today there is such an analysis and it says very clearly that there is no need and in fact there is even a threat of overlapping children's hospitals, children's beds, i.e. to open a new hospital", Brestnička added.
She specified that currently the available beds are not fully filled. In other words, she said, "there is no need for more hospital beds that will only provoke further over-hospitalization.
"There is a need for pediatricians, for pediatricians. From nurses. Very often specialists joke about pain, I would say that pediatric nurses are a disappearing you".
She explained that this is also a reason for not wanting a private hospital because some of the pediatric nurses will go to the private hospital.