Proceedings launched against HIV-positive dentist

Police have detained a Prague-based Albanian national for running a dentist’s surgery in the capital without a valid work visa. Proceedings have now been launched to have the individual deported. In addition to not having a visa, the dentist was ordered to stop practicing his profession last year, after it was revealed the man was HIV-positive. The former head of the Czech Dentists’ Chamber Jiří Pekárek told Czech news agency ČTK that that alone was not enough to have him banned from his job, as all doctors are required to use safety items such as masks and rubber gloves. In his view, the foreign national must have violated sanitary regulations - potentially putting patients at risk.