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Current AffairsCourt opens case of “miracle” doctor
A Prague court on Friday opened the case of Zbynek Veselsky – a doctor who
made a fine business out of curing cancer with costly injections. His
patients never had cancer and the injections he gave them were vitamin B.
The case has evoked public outrage and raised many questions relating to
medical ethics and the role of the Czech Doctors’ Chamber.
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Current AffairsCourt orders compensation in baby-swap case
A Brno court has ordered Třebíč hospital in Moravia to pay a total of 3.3
million crowns in damages to the families of two baby girls who were
accidentally switched at birth, a fact that only came to light ten months
later. The court ruling was unprecedented and has evoked heated debate in
the media regarding how one can put a price tag to this kind of trauma.
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Current AffairsCourt compensates woman who became pregnant after sterilisation
A court in Prague handed down an unusual verdict on Monday in the case of a
woman who became pregnant despite having been sterilised. The Central
Bohemia Regional court, which is located in Prague, ordered a hospital in
Kutná Hora to pay 30,000 crowns – that’s about 1,500 U.S. dollars –
to the woman, who became pregnant a year after being sterilised at Kutná
Hora hospital four years ago.
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Current AffairsThe case of the exchanged babies frays nerves, raises questions
It is a saga that has dragged on for almost two years - a pair of babies
from Brno were accidentally exchanged at birth and given to the wrong
parents. The mistake was discovered only a year later when the father of
one of the children went for a paternity test, which revealed that neither
the mother nor the father were the biological parents of their baby. Now
the families are in court suing the hospital involved in the mix up,
testifying for the first time this week. The families are each seeking 6
million crowns in compensation in what is proving to be a very challenging
case.
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Current AffairsJustice minister: the law should protect child victims
Children in distress – we see them in ads appealing for public donations,
we see them in news bulletins as the victims of horrific crimes and
splashed across front pages. More than ever in the last year Czechs have
witnessed the suffering of young children – a naked boy lying naked and
bound, force-fed by his mother, a little girl crying in the street as her
parents fight over her, pulling her in different directions. Now the
justice minister has put his foot down and presented the Cabinet with an
amendment to the law which would offer victims, particularly child victims,
the right to privacy.
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Current AffairsSwapped baby girls come home to stay
Nikolka and Veronika, two baby girls accidentally swapped at birth, are now
back with their biological parents. After an agonizing eight weeks their
parents took the plunge and finally swapped back their children.
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MagazineMagazine
A wave of DNA tests in the wake of a highly publicized baby-swap. Who won
the Office Rats Race? And -where did you leave the baby grandma?! Find out
more in Magazine with Daniela Lazarova.
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