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President ratifies health code amendment

Patients such as organ donors and newborns are exempt from paying health fees

July 23rd, 2008 issue

(Updated July 30, 2008) Czech President Václav Klaus ratified an amendment to the Health Code, which exempts newborns, organ donors, residents of institutions and people ordered by the courts to get medical care from paying mandatory health fees, Novinky.cz wrote on Wednesday.

As part of the government's recent financial reform, patients must pay 30 Kč per visit to the doctor and for the filling of a prescription, 60 Kč for a day in the hospital and 90 Kč for a trip to the emergency room. 

The Czech parliament and senate approved the amendment in June.

According to Health Minister Tomas Julínek, the fees are necessary to decrease the number of unnecessary visits to the doctor. Nonetheless, he appealed to deputies of the Civic Democrat Party to vote for the amendment in the interest of the government's very fragile coalition agreement.

Klaus also ratified an amendment to the Police Code which takes away the right of police to measure car speed using radar inside a community. On the other hand, it gives police the right to use electric paralyzers in extreme circumstances and increases their access to phone, credit card and medical records.


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