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 to the patient. The doctor may recommend a hospital and may suggest a possible time of hospitalisation.
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 may be registered in waiting lines to receive scheduled State-funded surgery.
Read about outpatient care as well in this Guide.