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03/20/2007
Eleven patients died in a hospital in the east Bohemian town of Havlickuv Brod due to incorrect medical treatment, an expert commission has concluded. The commission had been set up after it emerged that police had charged a former male nurse at the hospital Petr Zelenka last December with the murder of eight patients. Zelenka was charged with deliberately administering lethal doses of the blood-thinning drug Heparin. He has since admitted the charges and now faces life imprisonment, although his defence lawyers claim he is mentally ill. Altogether, the commission investigated more than 20 suspicious deaths. Of the 11 who died due to incorrect treatment, 10 were given excessive doses of Heparin while 1 is thought to have been given a lethal dose of insulin.
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03/20/2007
Lidove noviny writes that three years ago Czech police wiretapped nobleman Franz Ulrich Kinsky, who had filed a number of restitution claims for family property in Bohemia which had been confiscated at the end of the Second World War, three years ago. The paper claims that his lawyer Jaroslav Capek's phone was also bugged. Police, who suspected Mr Kinsky of fraud, recorded telephone conversations between Mr Kinsky and his lawyer, a fact sharply criticised by the Czech Bar Association. A Czech court approved the wiretapping and the current Justice Minister Jiri Pospisil says that this was in accordance with the law. According to Lidove noviny, the wiretapping of Mr Kinsky's phone did not prove the suspicion and investigation was halted after two years.
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03/20/2007
The economic daily Hospodarske noviny writes that Labour and Social Affairs Minister Petr Necas is preparing a package of measures that he believes would allow the government to annually save 23 billion crowns (over 1 billion USD) on welfare benefits. The largest sum is to be saved on parental benefits and sickness benefits and the government also intends to withdraw social security benefits from people with higher incomes, the paper says. However, the changes will be smaller than was expected, Hospodarske noviny writes.
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03/20/2007
A mother has murdered her two children aged one and three years in the north Bohemian town of Ústí nad Labem. A police spokeswoman told the Czech Press Agency that further details of the crime would be divulged later on Tuesday, adding that the unnamed mother had been hospitalised in a psychiatric unit.
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03/20/2007
Winter has returned with a vengeance in the regions of Moravia and Silesia, which have been experiencing heavy snowfalls. Meteorologists expect up to 20 cm of snow to fall in certain places by Wednesday afternoon. In the Moravian city of Ostrava, a covered tennis court collapsed under the weight of snow on uesday morning. No one was hurt in the incident.
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03/19/2007
The Brno city councillors have agreed that the UNESCO-listed Tugendhat villa which is being claimed back by the descendants of its pre-WWII owners should remain property of the city. The decision has yet to be approved by a vote of the city hall assembly. The city originally intended to give the villa back to the Tugendhat family via the state but the state authorities refused it.
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03/19/2007
The Czech government has decided to sell a seven-percent share of the power company CEZ on the capital market. According to Finance Minister Miroslav Kalousek, at the current price of the stock the sale could bring 36 billion crowns (1.7 billion USD) to the state coffers which the government plans to use for the repairs and construction of roads. The government holds a 67.6-percent stake at CEZ.
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03/19/2007
Police are investigating another alleged attempt at bribing Marcela Urbanova, a key witness in the case of Deputy Prime Minister and Christian Democrat chairman Jiri Cunek who has been accused of corruption, state attorney Petr Bares told the CTK news agency. The investigation has been initiated by an article in a regional Vsetin weekly which accuses Ms Urbanova, former secretary to Mr Cunek when he was still mayor of the town of Vsetin, of having taken a bribe for mediating a municipal contract for a private company.
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03/19/2007
Around 30 Czech soldiers have left Prague to man a field hospital in Afghanistan. The troops flew to Kabul on Monday where they will join up with colleagues who left with equipment earlier. The hospital will begin operations in April and will provide surgical, post-op and dental care for allied troops in Afghanistan. The mission will cost 150 million crowns (7.1 million US dollars), paid from the defence ministry budget while some costs will also be covered by NATO.
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03/19/2007
A new poll by the STEM agency suggests that 4/5 of Czechs are not happy with the current political situation. Sixty-percent of those polled said they were dissatisfied with the performance of the cabinet. Parliament enjoys even less support. On the other hand, 70 percent of the population support the president, according to the poll.
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