Pediatrician let off with small fine

A pediatrician who was found to have been drinking at work has been let off with a fine. A regional court fined him 15,000 crowns, close to 1,000 US dollars. The verdict has outraged the local community in the town of Domašov nad Bystřicí which has turned to the Czech Doctors’ Chamber with a request that it revoke the doctor’s license. Several mothers from the community testified against him saying that on several occasions he had been tipsy on duty and they had had to take their children for treatment elsewhere. The doctor said he had been driven to drink by family problems.