Brych not framed, says Czech

Press, 11 June 1977, Page 22

Brych not framed, says Czech

PA Auckland Assertions that Mr Milan Brych may be the innocent victim of a “frame-up” are completely untrue, an eminent Czech medical professor believes. He is Dr Vladislav Kruta, former head of the department of physiology at the University of Purkyne (formerly known as Masaryk University), Brno — the medical school where Mr Brych claims to have qualified as a dcotor of medicine. Professor Kruta said he had come to New Zealand at the invitation of the Medical Council because of his concern that Mr Brych’s actions in continuing to practise could bring medical ethics into disrepute. He was also concerned that the reputation of his own university might be harmed. “I am not a man who would defend physicians who wer« campaigning

against a colleague to protect their own vested interests,” Professor Kruta said.

“My concern is with medical ethics. The medical profession is not like other professions, in that people who are ?ufferng from a disease go to the doctor confident in him and expecting to be helped.” Professor Kruta fled from Czechoslavakia when it was seized by the Nazis in 1939, joining' the Czech volunteer forces in France. When France was overrun he escaped to Britain,’ where he spent the rest of the war years serving as a doctor with the R.A.F. Professor Kruta was professor of physiology at the University of Purkyne from 1951 until his retirement in 1970. Mr Brych claims to have entered the university as a medical student in 1958 and to have graduated as a doctor of medicine in 1964,