The Ft 150,000-250,000 gross monthly wage of doctors in the public sector is humiliatingly low, the Hungarian Chamber of Doctors commented. The chamber suggests a gross monthly Ft 400,000 wage in order to make this profession attractive.

Mikola argues that doctors should run independent private businesses with officially set prices. He said he had developed such plans when he was heath minister in the previous Orbán government in 2001-02, but had no time to realise them, because the government was not re-elected."

Source: Hungary Around the Clock.

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