Hungarian Doctors Resist Task Force Directive
- 18 Oct 2021 7:18 AM
- Hungary Around the Clock
Family doctors have rejected as impractical an instruction from the pandemic task force to test patients suspected of having contracted the coronavirus in their consulting rooms from next week, Népszava reports.
Family doctors were told to begin rapid testing of patients with test kits and facial protective gear to be provided to them.
In response, doctors have begun a signature drive declaring that the directive is impossible to implement, as it is not possible to ensure safety to patients, and in the vast majority of family doctors’ consulting rooms it is impossible to separate patients suspected of having contracted the infection from those not infected.
Family doctors also say that under epidemiological regulations those administering the tests should wear complete protective clothing but there is no time for doctors to change clothes regularly several times a day during consulting hours, while providing medical attention to patients, inoculating them against Covid and influenza.
According to epidemiological protocol if they find positive tests, they should disinfect the consulting and waiting rooms, and evacuate the consulting room, making it impossible to provide medical care for other patients with different complaints.
The signatories ask the task force to enable them to carry out testing under the existing system.
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