Prague, Sept 7 - The Czech Chamber of Deputies yesterday passed a bill adjusting the rules for artificial fertilisation, women' sterilisation, men's castration and a change of sex that also bans cloning and sets conditions for testing new methods of treatment on people.
Representatives of health workers' unions and the Doctors' Chamber, however, say they do not expect the new legislation to improve the conditions for patients and the situation in the health sector.
Artificial fertilisation will only by available to women no older than 49. Anonymous female donors may only be aged 18 to 35 and male donors 18 to 40.
The bill allows for sterilisation also for other than health reasons, but only for women over 21 and on the basis of their application.
Therapeutical castration will only be allowed for men over 25 who committed a violent sexual crime or who are sexual deviants.
The health care provider testing new methods of treatment on people will have to be insured for the damage that the patient may possibly incur.
The bill also embeds schools' duty to organise and pay preventive checks for pupils of secondary and higher vocational schools which will cost them an estimated 30 million crowns annually.
The Chamber of Deputies also passed a bill on the emergency services that extends the time of rescuers' arrival to the patient by five to 20 minutes maximally.
The current 15 minute deadline cannot be kept in areas with a total of 1.3 million inhabitants. Some 200,000 people will still be outside the 20 minute deadline.
The Chamber of Deputies also passed a draft amendment to the bill on health insurance under which health insurance companies will be obliged to ensure available paid services both in place and time for patients.
The bill also provides for patients having the right to choose the variant of treatment if there is also extra care. They will have to pay the difference in the cost of the two treatments.
All three bills that are part of the government health care reform were passed by the votes of the centre-right government coalition parties, the Civic Democrats (ODS), TOP 09 and Public Affairs (VV).
They will now go to the left-dominated Senate that is likely to send them back to the Chamber of Deputies. The Chamber of Deputies, however, has the strength to override the Senate veto.
The unions and the Doctors' Chamber's representatives say the bills were prepared hurriedly without being properly discussed.
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"They will not increase quality but will rather step up chaos in the health sector," health care workers' union chairwoman Dagmar Zitnikova told CTK.
She pointed to a number of modifications to the government's bill which deputies pushed through during the debate in parliament. As a result, the bills are difficult to comprehend, even for lawyers, Zitnikova said.
Similarly, CLK vice president Zdenek Mrozek described the bills as created in a hurry and modified in the last minute without a proper debate.
Some provisions are ambiguous, which may lead to court disputes, Mrozek said. Zitnikova shares the view, she told CTK.
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