Hello to representatives of the media.
I'd first like to thank Prime Minister Golob
who joined us for today's opening of the first phase
of the replacement project for the Celje General Hospital,
along with representatives of the Celje municipality
and our provider of primary health services for the municipalities
of Celje, Vojnik, Štore, and Dobrna.
Our meeting was intended primarily to highlight good practices
that we are carrying out in the field of primary healthcare.
The CEO of the Health Center Alenka Obrul and her colleagues
presented some unresolved organizational challenges,
but also how we in Celje have recently managed
ensure relatively good, accessible, fast, and responsive
primary healthcare for our residents.
The City of Celje has taken an active role
in healthcare during this period by ensuring investments in
the construction and reconstruction of the Health Center,
which the center can cover quite effectively
with its own funds. Today, we're in the recently renovated
facilities at Gregorčičeva 6, to where the center's activity
is being expanded, and investments are underway at the main building.
We're pleased that the Health Center is in such a financial condition
that it can ensure these funds. It's also nice to see the teams
of family doctors, and we have 55 such teams
in the area covered by the Health Center, of which five
work on a contractual basis and 50 are based at the Health Center.
They're working well and are responsive
to the needs of our residents. Thank you.
I would like to thank the Prime Minister very much
for taking the time and coming to say hello.
The Celje Health Center is a large and important facility
for the region. Since the emergence of Covid-19,
we have acted in a positive manner with complete teams.
On behalf of my colleagues, I can say that we were up
to the challenges. Today, we opened a clinic for patients
without primary care doctors. We'll let you know
about the response tomorrow. As you were able to see
and as the mayor explained, we're ensuring the renovation
of our facilities along with the municipality
and others. We're keeping up with our plan and making sure
that we get new programs. This is all for the benefit
of the patients from our municipalities, while our specialist
programs are carried out for the entire Savinja region.
Just a few words. I was pleasantly surprised
and pleased by what I saw at the Celje Health Center today.
Congratulations to the CEO and her team.
We're seeing a confirmation today that just as the state
or municipalities need to provide funds for infrastructure,
it's just as important, or even more so, how teams are managed.
This is up to the management and the organization of labor.
People never leave organizations because they don't like
some infrastructure. When they quit, they do so
because of poor relationships or inappropriate management.
In Celje, we're not seeing such quitting,
which means that the situation is clear. I can only wish
that such good management practices
will spread throughout Slovenia. Only this will enable us
to solve all our healthcare challenges in the long run.
The type of organization, making use of teams,
seems just as important to me.
This approach combines all relevant knowledge in one place
and effectively connects it, and in the end,
the patients end up benefiting the most.
A similar case, and this was a good example for me,
is when health centers work with emergency facilities
across the road. Effective cooperation between
health centers, urgent care facilities, and ERs
in hospitals is the next step toward allowing primary care
to be connected to secondary and tertiary care.
This doesn't create bottlenecks, but rather frees up the potential
of secondary and tertiary care. This is a good practice.
As the CEO told us, they don't want to brag
about their results, but I think it's a shame that many good people
in Slovenia don't brag enough about their results.
In the end, all the attention goes to those who are a part
of the problem. I'd like to see more media coverage
of people with solutions and enable Slovenia
to be among the countries with a higher quality of life.
Unfortunately, the attention goes to people who aren't doing
their jobs, so please share your story
of success with the media, not because of the government,
but because of the patients. This will calm down the people
and improve the conditions.
Thank you. I will.
Can you tell us more about this clinic for people without
primary care physicians? -The clinic will be open
five hours a day starting today.
You can find the address and the phone number
on our website. It will take place in a different clinic
every day, with walk-ins during the first hour,
followed by appointments. I can't tell you how it all
went today. I'll have that tomorrow. -What about the employees?
There are eight doctors, 15 nurses, and 6 administrators.
All of them have contracts. Work-hours registration
will be processed through a work contract as well.
Allow me a comment. It won't be an expert one,
but it will be important. The Celje Health Center
has one of the lowest shares of patients without primary
care physicians in the country and almost half are foreigners.
Despite this, they decided to set up this clinic,
so we can see what the actual need for this is.
This is an improvised, temporary measure,
and it has a single purpose: To make sure that no one
is left without a family doctor.
Only time will tell how many such clinics will still operate
in Slovenia after three months. Perhaps Celje will be among
the first towns to close the clinic because it will no longer
be needed, but until we give people without a doctor
a chance to come, we won't know. That's why it makes sense to open
them around the country, but far fewer will remain open.