Regional governors oppose plan to reduce number of trauma centres

Regional governors oppose a plan by the Czech health ministry to reduce the number of the country’s trauma centres from 14 to 10. The newly elected head of the Regional Governors’ Association, Michal Hašek, has asked the health minister to meet with the governors and explain the plan to them. Heath Minister Tomáš Julínek came up with a new scheme that seeks to re-organize Czech traumatological care; under the new plan, trauma centres in Prague, Brno, Pardubice and Zlín should become regular hospitals.