Patients’ Union: Rath | will be the new patient ombudsman for Central Bohemia and Prague iROZHLAS
On Monday, the Czech Patients’ Union appointed former Central Bohemian Governor David Rath as patient ombudsman for Central Bohemia and Prague. It aims to help protect patients’ rights and act as a mediator. He will not receive a financial reward for this work, he told Rath at a press conference on Monday, who was released from prison on Tuesday after serving half of a seven-year sentence for corruption. The Patients’ Union applied for release from prison.
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“The goal is for the patient to have the opportunity to stand up,” said Luboš Olejár, president of the Czech Patients’ Union, to appoint a former politician. According to him, the court’s solution is not the best solution for many cases at all costs, but the situation can be solved differently.
Rath said he should advise patients as a doctor to turn to in specific cases. “The second thing is to find a certain level of some peace,” he added. One of the goals should be, among other things, to improve communication between patients, doctors and insurance companies.
I have made a number of mistakes, and I continue to respect the verdict, Rath said. He is not going to politics after his release
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The executive believes that in many cases, support for patients or the formulation of questions can also be support for patients. As an ombudsman, the former governor would also like to assess better communication with the Czech Medical Chamber in a specific case.
In the future, Olejár did not rule out that he would perform the function of ombudsman Rath for the entire Czech Republic; the union will now evaluate the volume of his work every month.
In the first months, people can contact Rath via e-mail, which is published on the Patients’ Union website. According to the union’s management, the patient must be convinced at the end of the case that everything that could have been done in his favor has been done.
Rath has been working in the hospital surgery since Friday. From next week, he will also work at the medical center in the Brno prison, where he worked as a doctor at the time of serving his sentence. Rath said on Tuesday that they were to work in the prison two days a week and that they planned night services there.
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The former police chief was detained in May 2012 with a bribe of seven million in a wine box. The Prague High Court later acknowledged Rath’s guilt in influencing tenders for the reconstruction of Buštěhrad Castle in the Kladno region.
In this branch of the case, Rath received a seven-year prison sentence, a ten-million fine and a ban on activity, for gaining an advantage in awarding a public contract and damaging the EU’s financial interests. So far, he has paid about half of the amount. In the second branch of the case, the Regional Court in Prague unjustifiably extended Rath’s sentence by another year, and also imposed a fine of 18 million.
According to the senate, another eight defendants and nine companies, including the construction company Metrostav, also committed crimes related to medical contracts in the region. The second branch will be dealt with by the High Court of Appeal in April.
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