Last week Radio Slovakia International organized a public, open discussion on what it means to be a foreigner in Slovakia.You can listen to the first part of this debate below, the second one will be broadcast on Monday, February 24th.

Welcome to Slovakia?

According to the latest data of the European Network of Cancer Registries in 2012 Slovakia had the highest incidence rate of colorectal cancer in Europe, 63.3 new cases per 100,000 inhabitants, and shared with Croatia, the second highest mortality after Hungary. In rough numbers about 1,700 Slovaks die of this type of cancer every year. Anca Dragu tries to find out why.

How Changing Eating Habits Impacted Slovaks' Health

State Scientific Library in Prešov houses a project on documenting the culture of the Roma community in this country. Martina Šimkovičová went to this east Slovak town to browse through the book entitled “Roma music in Slovakia”.

The irresistible Roma music documented in a book

Slovakia is at a similar level with Sweden and Belgium in terms of money spent on healthcare as share of the public purse but you can barely find a Slovak patient who dares to compare the quality of the healthcare system in this country with that of Sweden or Belgium. Anca Dragu reports.

Money can’t buy you good health in Slovakia...because it's misspent

A few patients have come together to try to exchange information about their disease. A doctor or two, unhappy with the divorce between medicine and social welfare joins them. This is how most patients‘ organisations in Slovakia were born. But who are they and what is their real impact on the healthcare system? Anca Dragu reports.

Patients‘ organisations in Slovakia: "Divided We Stand"

Slovak scientists have big plans but often little money at the their disposal to fulfil them and are unhappy that clerks are more interested in the number of test tubes used than the concrete results of a research project.

Bureaucracy suffocates medical research in Slovakia

About 78% of those working in Slovakia's healthcare are women. What does it mean for the future of this sector and society as such?Why surgery is still regarded as a man's land?

Here is your scalpel, Miss

In one package, Janette Maziniova comes as an expert in youth projects, an award winning blogger, a book author, and a Gypsy who is trying to build a bridge between the world in which she was born and raised, and the world of gadzovia as Gypsies - also known as Roma - call those who do not belong to their ethnic group.

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