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| Czech hospitals brace for crisis-care mode as thousands of doctors refuse overtime hours |
| Prag, 07.12.2023 |
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| Hospitals are bracing for a staff crisis in December after the Health Ministry refused to meet doctors demands for higher pay and less overtime. Hospitals are cancelling non-essential surgeries, some are closing entire departments and stretching their resources to the limit to cover emergency care in the coming weeks.As efforts to avert nation-wide protest action in the health sector reached a dead-end this week, Czechs are being alerted to the complications of a major staff crisis in the vast majority of Czech hospitals in December. More than 6,000 doctors have refused to sign overtime contracts for the coming month, which is roughly half of the 13,000 doctors serving in hospitals around the country.
In practice, this means that there will be fewer doctors on duty, especially on evening and night shifts. Some hospitals have had to close entire departments and the vast majority have cancelled or postponed thousands of outpatient appointments and hundreds of operations scheduled for December.
Instead, the staff on duty will be channeled into emergency care and essential procedures. Even so, people have been warned that waiting times in ER may be longer than they are used to.odkaz na stránku
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