Tensions at Karlovy Vary Hospital: Cardiologists Threaten Mass Layoffs

Doctors at the cardiology department of the Karlovy Vary Regional Hospital (KKN) are openly threatening to lay off staff if Nela Kvačková remains the general director. She has entered into a dispute with doctors over her efforts to limit private practices, which she says unnecessarily reduce the revenues of regional hospitals.

Karlovy Vary - Doctors at the cardiology department of the Karlovy Vary Regional Hospital (KKN) are threatening mass layoffs if Nela Kvačková remains the general director. She has entered into a dispute with doctors over her efforts to limit doctors' private practices, which she says unnecessarily reduce the revenues of regional hospitals. According to the director, outpatient clinics could be under the KKN and the income could be shared. Kvačko…