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02/27/2006
The Czech antitrust office has said that will begin administrative proceedings against companies that halted medicine supplies to three teaching hospitals. The bureau will be attempting to uncover whether the companies entered into a cartel agreement. The announcement was made on Monday by the antitrust bureau's Martin Pecina, but the Czech Association of Wholesale Drug Distributors, has denied any cartel agreement. Two weeks ago four medicines wholesalers stopped supplies to three Czech hospitals over outstanding debt (Prague's Bulovka and Thomayer teaching hospitals and the St Ann Teaching Hospital in Brno). They owe distributors 400 million crowns - the equivalent of almost 17 million US dollars.
One of the four members of the association, Pharmos, resumed supplies, but is expected to halt them again this week.
The country's health minister, David Rath, is among those who suspect the medicines distributors of a cartel agreement. But, Mr Rath himself has come under criticism by the International Association of Pharmaceutical Companies, which has likened his plan to select a sole supplier as breaching rules of economic competition.
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02/27/2006
In related news, the teaching hospitals in debt will receive some 350 million crowns - divided up by the Health Ministry - this week to begin paying off some of their debt. The decision is in keeping with the health minister's plan to help the hospitals recover by the end of the current government's term in June 2006. On Monday, Health Minster David Rath and Finance Minister Bohuslav Sobotka met to discuss the issue, with the health minister saying the Health Ministry would have to modify its annual budget. According to Mr Rath the hospitals' total liabilities are worth 2 billion crowns. The ministry expected to find between 700 and 800 million to help the hospitals out of financial difficulty.
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02/27/2006
The Internet server Euro on-line has reported that Czech forces in Iraq are due to receive special jamming equipment in March. According to the news site, the equipment should allow Czech specialists to safely de-fuse mines. But, further specifics of the delivery are not known. Currently a small contingent of Czech military police train Iraqi police in the country's second-largest city of Basra.
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02/26/2006
The head of the State Veterinary Authority Milan Malena has said that a potential outbreak of bird flu is more likely to occur in the Pardubice, Strakonice and Znojmo districts where there is a high density of poultry farms. If the deadly H5N1 virus were detected in those areas, Mr Malena said stricter precautionary measures would be adopted than elsewhere. The infection has so far been detected in 12 European countries, including three countries neighbouring the Czech Republic.
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02/26/2006
The President of the Chamber of Dentists Jiri Pekarek has said healthcare workers are considering a general strike in May, one month before parliamentary elections. Speaking in a TV discussion programme on Sunday, Mr Pekarek said during the industrial action many practices and surgeries would be closed and health care would be less available. Health Minister David Rath said he would not yield to the pressure of the disaffected health care employees. On Friday, thousands of health care workers staged a protest rally in Prague, demanding Health Minister Rath's dismissal.
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02/26/2006
Health Minister Rath also told Czech Television on Sunday that he would like the heavily indebted teaching hospitals, directly controlled by the Health Ministry, to repay their debts by the June elections. Mr Rath said the Health Ministry did not have the required 2 billion crowns and he would therefore need the help of Prime Minister Jiri Paroubek and Finance Minister Bohuslav Sobotka. Meanwhile pharmaceutical wholesalers have refused to deliver drugs to three most indebted hospitals until they pay for previous deliveries.
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02/26/2006
The film "Stesti" or "Happines" has won the Czech Lion award for the best Czech film of 2005. The film, directed by Bohdan Slama and produced by Pavel Strnad, received a total of seven prizes at Saturday's award ceremony in Prague; for best Czech film, best director, best script, best photography, best actor in a leading role and best actress in a leading and supporting role.
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02/26/2006
The Czech Republic defeated Russia 3:0 in men's ice hockey on Saturday to win the Olympic Games ice hockey bronze medal. Marek Zidlicky scored a powerplay goal early in the second period to make it 2-0 after Russian forward Ilya Kovalchuk was given a five-minute major for boarding. Martin Erat and Martin Straka also scored for the Czechs who finished with a record of four wins and four losses and picked up their first Olympic medal since winning gold in 1998.
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02/26/2006
The next couple of days should be even colder than the weekend, with partly cloudy to overcast skies and daytime temperatures dropping to minus 5 degrees Celsius. Temperatures in the night time are expected to drop to minus 13 to minus 15 degrees Celsius.
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02/25/2006
Border police in North Bohemia turned back a lorry carrying a load of communal waste from Germany in the early hours of Saturday. The driver claimed he had only crossed the border to buy diesel. The Czech Environment Inspection Authority estimates some 15,000 tonnes of rubbish have been imported from Germany in recent months and dumped illegally in the Czech Republic.
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