Health Minister Julinek sacks three hospital directors

Health Minister Tomas Julinek has sacked the directors of three big teaching hospitals - Tomayerova and Vinohradska in Prague and the Teaching Hospital in Olomouc. The minister cited poor financial management saying that the directors had failed to substantially reduce their hospitals long-term debts. Former health minister David Rath of the opposition Social Democrats has meanwhile issued a statement accusing his successor of having launched a political purge.