Jiří Ventruba (2 February 1950 – 9 March 2021) was a Czech neurosurgeon and politician.

Biography

He was born in

Brno Brno ( , ; german: Brünn ) is a city in the South Moravian Region of the Czech Republic. Located at the confluence of the Svitava and Svratka rivers, Brno has about 380,000 inhabitants, making it the second-largest city in the Czech Republic ...

, Czechoslovakia. He was a member of the

Chamber of Deputies of the Czech Republic The Chamber of Deputies, officially the Chamber of Deputies of the Parliament of the Czech Republic ( cs, Poslanecká sněmovna Parlamentu České republiky), is the lower house of the Parliament of the Czech Republic. The chamber has 200 seats ...

from 2017 until his death on 9 March 2021, in Prague from COVID-19 during the

COVID-19 pandemic in Czech Republic The COVID-19 pandemic in the Czech Republic is part of the worldwide pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 () caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (). The first three confirmed cases in the Czech Republic were report ...

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1950 births 2021 deaths Czech neurosurgeons Czech politicians Civic Democratic Party (Czech Republic) politicians Members of the Chamber of Deputies of the Czech Republic (2017–2021) Masaryk University alumni People from Brno People from Modřice Deaths from the COVID-19 pandemic in the Czech Republic {{CzechRepublic-med-bio-stub