Czech healthcare facing shortfall in number of nurses

The Czech healthcare system is facing a significant loss of nurses in the coming years, the iRozhlas.cz said on Sunday. Around 12,000 of the current 82,000 nurses in the country are due to reach pension age within five years, and around one-third could be retired in a decade’s time, the news site reported.

At present there is a shortfall of around 2,500 general nurses.

The minister of health, Vlastimil Válek, says nurses training should be made more accessible and attractive without falling beneath EU standards.