Anti-Drug Coordinator Bém Is Leaving His Position. He Was Sent a Text Message Asking for a Vacation.
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Anti-Drug Coordinator Bém Is Leaving His Position. He Was Sent a Text Message Asking for a Vacation.
National Drug Coordinator Pavel Bém is set to step down at the end of June when his agenda is transferred from the Government Office to the Ministry of Health. He will be replaced by Dita Protopopová, who will hold the new position of National Coordinator for Mental Health Care and Drug Policy. On Monday, the government approved the transfer of some agendas from the Government Office to individual ministries.
Former mayor of Prague and renowned expert on drug issues Pavel Bém is leaving his position as national coordinator for drug policy. This was confirmed to HN by three sources close to the Government Office. His spokesperson Karla Mráčková then told HN that she will become the national coordinator for drug care from July 1st...
Dita Protopopová, the current head of the government's mental health policy department, will become the new national coordinator for mental health care and drug policy. She will replace Pavel Bém at the end of June.
Although Prime Minister Andrej Babiš did not indicate before Monday's government meeting that he wanted to change anything in the fight against addiction, just as he did not talk about human rights, he made drastic changes in these areas. And those that experts from both fields protest against. On Tuesday, it became clear that the current national anti-drug coordinator, Pavel Bém, is also to leave his position as part of the changes from July.
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National drug coordinator Pavel Bém is to leave his post at the end of June when the agenda is transferred from the government office to the Ministry of Health. The new national coordinator for mental health care and drug policy will be Dita Protopopová, the current head of the government department for mental health policy. The cabinet wants to combine both agendas. This was confirmed by government spokesperson Karela Mráčková.
Prague - The planned transfer of drug policy from the government office to the Ministry of Health is criticized by former national drug coordinator Jindřich Vobořil. He called it a wrong step. According to him, the department cannot coordinate proposals regarding customs, gambling, illegal trade or repression, it does not have the competence to do so. Vobořil also sees possible problems in the payment of subsidies to social services. He told ČTK.
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