Heger: anti-corruption measures have saved over a billion

Health Minister Leoš Heger has told the daily Právo that the anti-corruption measures he ordered for the organisations he manages directly have brought savings of more than a billion crowns. The health minister said that teaching hospitals in particular have shown reduced costs for medical materials and medicines. He added that the health care facilities he manages had shown an economic result of nearly half a billion in spite of the poor economic climate and increases of doctors’ salaraies of 5 to 8,000 crowns. The president of the Czech doctors’ chamber, Milan Kubek, says he is unimpressed by the measures, which in his opinion have not brought more accountability in health business matters.