Minister of Health Tomas Julinek of Czech Republic

Julinek was appointed Minister of Health in September 2006 to replace David Rath whose radical reforms of the Czech health system were strongly opposed by the country’s private doctors.

Saint George hotel is situated in the city centre, close to the metro station, 10 min walk from the Wenceslas Square.

Minister Julinek has come with a very tough proposal that goes far beyond the darkest expectations, and he thereby confirms that the ODS lied before the elections when it promised not to raise patients' financial participation in health care," said Rath.

Julinek said that these savings would enable the state to increase health insurance payments for the state insured - children, pensioners and the unemployed.

Prague, Aug 10 - Czech patients will have the chance to pay for extra medical care and they will know the relevant treatment's price beforehand, Health Minister Tomas Julinek said today, referring to a draft health system reform he is going to submit to the government on Monday.

Czech News Agency via NewsEdge Corporation : Prague, Aug 10 (CTK) - Czech patients will have the chance to pay for extra medical care and they will know the relevant treatment's price beforehand, Health Minister Tomas Julinek said today, referring to a draft health system reform he is going to submit to the government on Monday.

The current health system swallows up more than 200 billion crowns a year, including billions that are wasted unnecessarily, Julinek says in a document highlighting the draft reform.

Julinek said that the patients' planned payments of 30 crowns for a visit to a doctor's surgery and for an item on a medical prescription, 60 crowns for a day spent in hospital and 90 crowns for the use of emergency medical service are no reform but a mere measure to help stabilise the sector's finances.

Julinek said he insists on these payments.

Julinek has appealed to hospitals to seek such certificates as he believes that hospitals will have to improve their care of patients in their effort to gain them.