Opposition says change of guard at VZP will not help ailing health sector

The head of the opposition Social Democrats Bohuslav Sobotka has said the changes on the board of VZP, the country’s largest health insurance company, were merely a redistribution of power between the two senior parties in government and would do nothing to resolve the growing problems in the health sector. Mr. Sobotka also criticized the fact that one of the members of the board of VZP owns a private hospital. The head of the VZP insurance company, Pavel Horák, and the head of the firm’s administrative board, Marek Šnajdr, stepped down on Monday in the face of mounting criticism from the Health Ministry over poor management.