Czech doctors are holding a “Healthcare Day” on March 1 in protest at a lack of investment in health services and new payment regulations, which may see their salaries fall.
“They will close their consulting rooms and relax or go get preventive health check-ups,” reports the Prague daily, adding the new reimbursement regulations set limits on how much insurance companies will pay for patient treatment. For example, doctors who specialise in internal medicine, “internists”, may see their pay cut by almost 25 per cent.
The protest comes two years after the successful ”Thank you, we are leaving” pay rise campaign arranged by doctors.
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