[The status of pathology in Czechoslovakia in 1988]

Personnel of 112 departments of pathology and 28 autopsy stations comprises 380.74 physicians, 30.63 academic non-physicians 761.43 medical technologists, 22.04 others with secondary school qualification, 267.45 autopsy aids and 205.18 others. In 1988 they performed 40,678 autopsies (53.47 per cent rate of hospital deaths), produced 548,854 necroptic slides, 1,902,707 bioptic slides, 559,709 cytologic slides, 46,955 semi-thin sections, 75,888 histochemical and immunochemical slides (total without necroptic slides represented 82.49 per cent). One physician could be calculated as related to 106.83 autopsies and 8,226.01 slides, one medical technologist to 4,118.41 slides. The proportion of physicians to other personnel was 1 to 3.38. Data from both national republics were quoted.