“On March 25, the director of the Central Military Hospital, Václav Masopust, dismissed the deputy for economic management, Tomáš Perutka. The reason for this move was the long-term diverging ideas about the performance of the given function and the fulfillment of assigned tasks, including access to the economic management of the institution,” is stated in a Sunday press release on the website of the Ministry of Defense.
“I have to fundamentally object to this claim. Mr. Masopust also told me something else in our personal communication,” responded the dismissed Perutka in a written statement sent to Novinka on Monday.
According to him, instead of conceptually correcting the problems of the military hospital, Masopust tries to remove responsibility for its condition and places the blame on those around him. “He also chose my personal liquidation as a path,” said the now former economic deputy.
But he was even sharper in the interview for Fairpress. “It’s a purposeful liquidation based on completely fabricated reasons,” said the dismissed deputy to the editors on Monday, who remains a regular employee of the ÚVN, but due to obstacles on the part of the employer, he is now at home and does not go to work, as he specified on Monday.
According to him, the fact that he repeatedly advised director Masopust to take measures and take steps that would get the hospital out of “deep investment underfunding” is clearly behind his dismissal. “And he refused to act, which was a fundamental problem,” says Perutka.
According to his words, he got into a split with Masopust when last year, as part of a financial control, he discovered that a large part of the purchases of medicines and medical preparations for the ÚVN worth tens of millions of crowns was not officially put out to tender. According to him, the law on public contracts was thus circumvented.
“I repeatedly warned the director about this, he did not react and did nothing. So I informed him that I would conduct an external audit, for which I began to be persecuted. He even attacked me with an internal auditor who began to slander me,” Perutka told Novinkám.
“The director was clearly bossing me around, the last meetings were downright offensive. I even considered filing a criminal complaint, but that wouldn’t lead to anything, because he had already publicly attacked me in front of my colleagues,” the ex-deputy didn’t take his napkin.
