The questions continue Magyar’s themes of recent weeks, calling for Orbán to resign because of the healthcare crisis, and objecting that “the entire cabinet holidayed for three weeks on an Adriatic island and on luxury yachts” while an “unprecedented” healthcare crisis prevails in Hungary.

Magyar was again critical of the situation in hospitals, such as inadequate air conditioning and a lack of toilet paper and disinfectants and he wanted to know why the cabinet keeps hospital infection statistics secret.

Magyar went on to ask why Fidesz, which has been in power for 14 years, blames the Gyurcsány cabinet of 15 years ago for the inhumane healthcare conditions, while it spends less than half of the EU average on healthcare.

Keeping Health Care Workers Is One of Govt's Most Important Tasks

Hungarymatters.hu reports that one of the most important tasks of the government is keeping capable health care workers in the profession, the state secretary in charge of health care said one of the most important tasks of the government is keeping capable health care workers in the profession, the state secretary in charge of health care said at the Tranzit Festival in Tihany, at Lake Balaton.

Péter Takács told a panel discussion that compared to 2010, the sector had 2.5 times more resources, while salaries for doctors and nurses had increased four-fold.

Decades of digital record keeping give Hungary’s health care system an edge over other countries, he added. He said health education, with a focus on prevention, would start in schools from September.

A new system for health screenings will also be prepared, he added.

Semmelweis University rector Béla Merkely highlighted the importance of a performance-based system for health care workers, but said a complex strategy needed to advance that principle beyond remuneration.

Magyar Finds Hospital Kitchen Mouldy​​​​​​​

The Tisza Party President Peter Magyar and his fellow MEP Andras Kulja recently visited the partly renovated Jahn Ferenc South Pest hospital.

Magyar summed up his experience on his Facebook page, noting that unfortunately installing the air-conditioning equipment did not fit into the renovation scheme everywhere, so for instance patients were suffering in 35C temperatures in the chronic treatment ward and the psychiatric ward.

It is entirely unacceptable, he said, that lunches for the 600 patients are cooked amid terrible hygienic conditions in a mouldy kitchen.

Upon their arrival, Magyar and Kulja measured temperatures of 31C on the ground floor, 35C in the kitchen and 27.2C in another room. 

Photo courtesy: Péter Magyar's Facebook page

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