The Miners’ Hospital in Karviná

For several years OKD has let its buildings to the private Miners’ Hospital of Karviná (KHN), while investing in their reconstruction. The viable programmes of the hospital are the centres of occupational medicine, spine diseases and brain diseases. All citizens of the district can use the hospital’s services.

OKD is concerned that the quality of medical checks and the level of employee preventive care is as high as possible. For this reason the company has invested considerable funds into the reconstruction of relevant buildings. As a result, new specialized units could be created in the hospital. KHN is thus becoming a modern and first-rate medical facility of European standard.

KHN is a non-state medical facility providing complex medical care. It has 328 employees, of which 56 are physicians and 159 are health-service personnel. The hospital has over 21 thousand patients, 12 thousand of whom are employees of the mining company. All units are equipped with modern high-tech instruments.

The main programmes of the hospital

• spine disease centre
• brain disease centre
• occupational medicine centre

Occupational Medicine Centre

The Occupational Medicine Centre is the largest facility of its kind in the Czech Republic. Since it was opened, medical care of OKD employees as well as employees of other companies has been concentrated in one place, with the doctors collaborating also with other medical facilities. Thus, patients can receive the results of their medical checks the same day, which is unique. Therefore, the Occupational Medicine Centre can process around fifty to seventy patients a day.