Miroslav Čerbák: key obituary facts
Is Miroslav Čerbák dead? Yes. Miroslav Čerbák died on October 18, 2026, at age 90.
Cause of death: Miroslav Čerbák's cause of death has not been publicly confirmed.
What was Miroslav Čerbák known for?
Miroslav Čerbák was a Czech physician and politician.
Miroslav Čerbák, a Czech physician and politician who served in parliament and as a deputy health minister, died October 18, 2026, in Dolní Řasnice, aged 90.
Born in Brno on February 23, 1936, he entered medicine in 1960 as an internist at the hospital in Mimoň. After its internal-medicine department closed, he briefly worked as a field physician before moving to the hospital in Česká Lípa, where he led the internal-medicine department until 1990.
He continued working there part time during the 1990s while taking on public roles. Čerbák also grew close to actor Vlastimil Brodský and cared for his health. He represented the Civic Democratic Alliance (ODA) in the Czech National Council in 1992 and in the Chamber of Deputies from 1993 to 1996. In 1992, he became vice-president of the Czech Medical Chamber. He did not win another term in 1995 and left its leadership in 1997, objecting to the chamber’s recommendation that outpatient doctors collect payments from patients for treatment. From 1997 to 1998, he led the medical council overseeing the health care of President Václav Havel.