Rath would raise pay of Czech staff caring for powerless patients

Prague- David Rath, shadow health minister for the senior opposition Social Democrats (CSSD), today said he would markedly increase the pay and reduce working hours for the personnel caring for powerless patients in order to increase the staff numbers in hospitals, he told journalists today. Rath said money for this purpose can be found on health insurers' accounts where 32 billion crowns rest unused. Rath was reacting to the media information about the desperate situation in facilities of long-term medical care. He said the problem concerns all facilities that care for powerless patients. It is not enough to hire nurses in Vietnam, for example, as after they learn Czech, the Vietnamese nurses would find out that they can earn twice as many as vendors and they would leave the hospital, Rath said. "At present, only a fool can... [read full story]