Defense Minister visits Czech medical team in Basra

Czech Defense Minister Jaroslav Tvrdik has visited the city of Basra in southern Iraq where work is underway on the setting up of a Czech field hospital. The team of Czech doctors and nurses are already working in makeshift conditions, providing medical care to several hundred patients a day. The hospital should be fully operational by mid May. Speaking to journalists later the minister said he was shocked by the plight of the locals and proud of the work of the Czech field hospital team. "They are professionals of which the Czech Republic can be truly proud" the minister said.

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Wednesday is expected to bring partly cloudy to overcast skies with rain in the north-western and eastern parts of the Czech Republic. Day temperatures between 21 and 28 degrees Celsius.