EU membership will offer Czechs advantages:
This article was originally published in Clinica
Executive Summary
Membership of the European Union will give Czech healthcare providers easier access to better equipment, according to David Rath president of the Czech Medical Chamber. It will also reduce the workload of doctors, because the government will have to adopt EU employment rules. Mr Rath said that Czech citizens had nothing to fear from EU membership because the country's healthcare system was better than commonly believed. He added that mortality data in the Czech Republic for children up to the age of five compare favourably with that in the Netherlands and the UK,