Hospital doctors impose overtime ban

Doctors at Karlovy Vary‘s main hospital have announced a ban on overtime work. The ban is a protest against what they claim to be the systematic imposition of excessive overtime by hospital bosses. Doctors say this is twice or three time the level allowed under the law. Doctors say the ban could close some hospital departments, including the children’s, neurology and gynaecology departments. Doctors’ unions are also seeking a 20 percent pay rise saying they have had virtually no increase for the last three to four years.