Czech Republic

Army doctors to manage the hospitals?

Published on 9 February 2011 at 11:28

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The Czech Government has admitted that the health system is threatened by the doctors’ protests. "The crisis plan: the Army will pitch in," announces Hospodářské Noviny. About 4,000 hospital doctors of the "Thank you, we’re leaving" movement are threatening to emigrate by month’s end if their working conditions are not improved and no plan is brought forward to combat corruption in the health system. "A crisis scenario has been drafted by Prime Minister Petr Nečas," the Prague daily explains: “Mobilising doctors and resources from the military for transferring patients, closing hospitals that will lose a lot of doctors, and shifting doctors from hospitals that are closed to those where medical services will remain in place." Talks between the doctors’ union and the Minister of Health are continuing. The movement is supported by only a third of the Czech population, notes Hospodářské noviny.

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