Inpatient care requires a patient’s hospitalization. A person may receive scheduled State-paid inpatient care services, as determined by the law.
To receive inpatient care services, a general practitioner or specialist doctor should issue a referral. As a rule, the provider of healthcare services has a duty to inform patients and health care services may be provided to him or her only with his or her consent.
Many types of inpatient care are included in State-paid health care services, such as:
- birth assistance
- planned surgery: e.g., spine surgery, cardiac surgery
- continuous mechanical ventilation of the lungs
- treatment of infectious diseases (e.g. tuberculosis)
- care of chronic patients, etc.
note Patients are registered in waiting lines to receive scheduled State-funded surgery.
Read about outpatient care as well in this Guide.