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Hello to representatives
of the media.

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I'd first like to thank
Prime Minister Golob

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who joined us for today's
opening of the first phase

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of the replacement project
for the Celje General Hospital,

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along with representatives
of the Celje municipality

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and our provider of primary health
services for the municipalities

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of Celje, Vojnik, Štore, and Dobrna.

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Our meeting was intended primarily
to highlight good practices

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that we are carrying out
in the field of primary healthcare.

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The CEO of the Health Center
Alenka Obrul and her colleagues

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presented some unresolved
organizational challenges,

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but also how we in Celje
have recently managed

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ensure relatively good, accessible,
fast, and responsive

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primary healthcare
for our residents.

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The City of Celje has taken
an active role

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in healthcare during this period
by ensuring investments in

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the construction and reconstruction
of the Health Center,

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which the center can cover
quite effectively

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with its own funds. Today,
we're in the recently renovated

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facilities at Gregorčičeva 6,
to where the center's activity

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is being expanded, and investments
are underway at the main building.

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We're pleased that the Health Center
is in such a financial condition

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that it can ensure these funds.
It's also nice to see the teams

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of family doctors, and we
have 55 such teams

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in the area covered by the Health
Center, of which five

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work on a contractual basis and 50
are based at the Health Center.

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They're working well
and are responsive

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to the needs of our residents.
Thank you.

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I would like to thank
the Prime Minister very much

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for taking the time
and coming to say hello.

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The Celje Health Center
is a large and important facility

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for the region. Since the
emergence of Covid-19,

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we have acted in a positive manner
with complete teams.

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On behalf of my colleagues,
I can say that we were up

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to the challenges. Today,
we opened a clinic for patients

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without primary care doctors.
We'll let you know

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about the response tomorrow.
As you were able to see

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and as the mayor explained,
we're ensuring the renovation

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of our facilities along
with the municipality

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and others. We're keeping up
with our plan and making sure

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that we get new programs.
This is all for the benefit

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of the patients from our
municipalities, while our specialist

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programs are carried out
for the entire Savinja region.

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Just a few words.
I was pleasantly surprised

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and pleased by what I saw
at the Celje Health Center today.

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Congratulations to the CEO
and her team.

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We're seeing a confirmation today
that just as the state

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or municipalities need to provide
funds for infrastructure,

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it's just as important, or even
more so, how teams are managed.

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This is up to the management
and the organization of labor.

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People never leave organizations
because they don't like

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some infrastructure. When
they quit, they do so

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because of poor relationships
or inappropriate management.

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In Celje, we're not seeing
such quitting,

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which means that the situation
is clear. I can only wish

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that such good management
practices

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will spread throughout Slovenia.
Only this will enable us

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to solve all our healthcare
challenges in the long run.

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The type of organization,
making use of teams,

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seems just as important to me.

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This approach combines
all relevant knowledge in one place

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and effectively connects it,
and in the end,

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the patients end up
benefiting the most.

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A similar case, and this
was a good example for me,

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is when health centers work
with emergency facilities

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across the road. Effective
cooperation between

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health centers, urgent care
facilities, and ERs

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in hospitals is the next step
toward allowing primary care

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to be connected to secondary
and tertiary care.

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This doesn't create bottlenecks,
but rather frees up the potential

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of secondary and tertiary care.
This is a good practice.

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As the CEO told us,
they don't want to brag

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about their results, but I think
it's a shame that many good people

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in Slovenia don't brag enough
about their results.

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In the end, all the attention goes
to those who are a part

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of the problem. I'd like
to see more media coverage

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of people with solutions
and enable Slovenia

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to be among the countries
with a higher quality of life.

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Unfortunately, the attention goes
to people who aren't doing

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their jobs,
so please share your story

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of success with the media,
not because of the government,

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but because of the patients.
This will calm down the people

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and improve the conditions.

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Thank you. I will.

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Can you tell us more about
this clinic for people without

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primary care physicians?
-The clinic will be open

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five hours a day
starting today.

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You can find the address
and the phone number

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on our website. It will
take place in a different clinic

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every day, with walk-ins
during the first hour,

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followed by appointments.
I can't tell you how it all

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went today. I'll have that tomorrow.
-What about the employees?

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There are eight doctors,
15 nurses, and 6 administrators.

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All of them have contracts.
Work-hours registration

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will be processed through
a work contract as well.

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Allow me a comment. It won't
be an expert one,

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but it will be important.
The Celje Health Center

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has one of the lowest shares
of patients without primary

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care physicians in the country
and almost half are foreigners.

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Despite this, they decided
to set up this clinic,

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so we can see what the actual
need for this is.

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This is an improvised,
temporary measure,

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and it has a single purpose:
To make sure that no one

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is left without a family doctor.

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Only time will tell how many
such clinics will still operate

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in Slovenia after three months.
Perhaps Celje will be among

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the first towns to close the clinic
because it will no longer

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be needed, but until
we give people without a doctor

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a chance to come, we won't know.
That's why it makes sense to open

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them around the country,
but far fewer will remain open.