Defence Medical Service is getting new medical equipment after MOD's successful response to EU IROP open call for projects

After submitting a bid for funding under the EU Integrated Regional Operational Programme (IROP) Open Call for Projects, the Ministry of Defence has received €1,944,690 in non-repayable funding to buy laboratory equipment and medical devices for the Slovak Military Medical Command (MILMEDCOM) Ružomberok.

In his statement on the healthcare equipment upgrade, Brig Gen Roman Jantoš MD, Commander of MILMEDCOM Ružomberok and Surgeon General of the Slovak Armed Forces, said: “The medical equipment will be brought into use and enable us to respond to emergencies caused by a virus or a pandemic and to carry on business as usual at MILMEDCOM.”

After putting the purchase out to tender, the first batch of medical equipment, worth almost €1m, was delivered on 6 March 2023. It includes laboratory equipment such as vital signs monitors (VSM) and central monitoring systems (CMS), portable X-ray detectors with accessories, medicine dispensers and infusion pumps, a fibre optic bronchoscope – a mobile flexible video bronchoscope with the option for the suction of secretions from the respiratory system, and video laryngoscopes. Also supplied were intensive care beds, an emergency care training manikin – an advanced wireless interdisciplinary patient simulator, and a simulator for the simulation of spontaneous breathing and a wide range of traumatic conditions.

Most recently, the Ministry of Defence and MILMEDCOM have been working closely to prepare projects on energy efficiency and savings, according to Secretary General of the MOD Service Office Peter Kozák, adding: “The aim is to support the sustainability and predictability of circumstances in order to eliminate the deficiencies about which the COVID-19 pandemic sounded a warning.”