Minister to take action to address nurses shortage

The Czech healthcare system is currently lacking 2,500 nurses at hospitals around the country, Czech Television reported. Experts say that the situation will only get worse unless schools begin turning out more nursing graduates.

In a bid to improve the situation the minister of health, Vlastimil Válek, plans to pour more financing into the training of nurses in the next two years.

The minister also aims to increase the number of other staff in the healthcare system; these could take on some of nurses’ duties, such as administrative work, he told Czech Television.