On August 6th, 2014, the Institute of Molecular Genetics of the AS CR, v. v. i., (IMG) opened a public collection aimed to help 14-year-old Katareeya Epp, who unfortunately died October 6th. Her parents are employed in the IMG (project BIOCEV). Because Katareeya originates from a “third country”, namely, Australia, according to the Czech legislation she is not entitled to healthcare support from the public healthcare insurance.

The cost of intensive therapy during first two months have already exceeded the limits of private insurance in the amount of 1,6 million CZK. The cost of 3,3 million now repose only on the girl’s parents.

Our collection covered vast majority of the debt to the hospital, and therefore was terminated
October 31st, 2014.

We would like to thank all for their donations.

The management of the IMG in cooperation with other institutions are now trying to initiate legislative changes that would prevent similar cases.

Attachments

newspaper article (Lidové Noviny – 10. 10. 2014, In Czech)
newspaper article (Euro – 6. 10. 2014, In Czech)
blog post (Aktuálně.cz – 11. 9. 2014, In Czech)
newspaper article (Lidové Noviny – 3. 9. 2014, In Czech)
newspaper article (Lidové Noviny – 17. 7. 2014, In Czech)
Certificate of Collection (in Czech)