117 result(s) for art in Health & Wellness
Xpat Opinion: 64 Hungarian Doctors Against ‘Gratitude Money’ Demand Healthcare Reforms
- 28 Dec 2015 9:00 AM
- health & wellness
As doctors demand higher wages to end so called ‘gratitude payments’ and stop the emigration of health care personnel from Hungary, a centrist columnist thinks that ending the system of illegal payments in hospitals is close to impossible.
In a Facebook initiative, 64 doctors are asking Hungarians to forward their petition in emails addressed to the Ministry of Human Resources. They demand the ...
World-Famous Hungarian Geneticist Endre Czeizel Dies
- 11 Aug 2015 9:00 AM
- health & wellness
Endre Czeizel, the world-famous Hungarian doctor and geneticist, has died at the age of eighty-one following a long battle with leukaemia in the early hours of Monday, his daughter told the state news agency MTI. Born in Budapest in 1935, Mr. Czeizel graduated at Budapest’s Semmelweis University of Medicine in 1959 and worked as a researcher at the National Institute of Public Health right up to ...
Hungarian Official Urges Highrisk Groups To Get Hepatitis C Test
- 29 Jul 2015 9:00 AM
- health & wellness
There are around 70,000 people with the hepatitis C infection in Hungary, 40,000 of whom need medical treatment yet only around 20,000 receive it, a health official said on Tuesday, which is World Hepatitis Day. Many patients are unaware of the actual moment they contracted the virus due to an initial absence of symptoms, Klára Werling, president of the national association of viral hepatitis ...
Residents Of Budapest Seek Refuge From Heat Wave In Baths
- 24 Jul 2015 9:00 AM
- health & wellness
Visitor numbers at six baths and water parks in Budapest were up by 23% in June compared to the same month last year, sales and marketing director of baths operator Budapest Gyógyfürdői és Hévizei Szilvia Czinege said. Since June, visitor numbers at baths and water parks in Budapest topped 60,000 on two separate weekends because of an early summer heat wave.
Synthetic Drugs: Hungary Is Sitting On A Ticking Time Bomb
- 13 Jul 2015 9:00 AM
- health & wellness
The recent disturbing rise in the consumption of cheap and unregulated substances known as “designer drugs”, which have recetly resulted in several deaths across the country, could mean that Hungary is sitting on a ticking time bomb and the country is on the edge of a new type of public health crisis, journalist Csaba Lukács writes in the daily newspaper Magyar Nemzet.
WHO: World No Tobacco Day, Hungary, 31 May
- 29 May 2015 9:01 AM
- health & wellness
Eliminating the illicit trade in tobacco would generate an annual tax windfall of US$ 31 billion for governments, improve public health, help cut crime and curb an important revenue source for the tobacco industry. Those are the key themes of World No Tobacco Day on May 31 when the World Health Organization will urge Member States to sign the Protocol to Eliminate the Illicit Trade in Tobacco ...
Xpat Opinion: “Gratitude Money” To Be Decriminalised In Hungary
- 16 Apr 2015 11:45 AM
- health & wellness
Cash bonuses for doctors and nurses have been standard practice for the past sixty years in Hungary and were tacitly tolerated as the only way to compensate for the low salaries prevalent in the Health Service. The new Penal Code however, defined such payments as a breach of the law, but the Ministry of Human Resources empowered hospital managements to authorise the receipt of such payments.
Budapest Transport Centre Dismisses Three In Spa Scandal
- 10 Apr 2015 9:00 AM
- health & wellness
The Budapest Transport Centre (BKK) has fired three members of its top management, news website Index reported on Thursday. The tabloid Blikk reported that the three men chose to hold an official BKK management meeting at a luxury wellness spa.
Hungarian Health Care Workers Earn 1/10th That Of Their Western Counterparts
- 9 Mar 2015 8:00 AM
- health & wellness
The people need to understand that we are not talking about how much residents or expert doctors make, but whether they will be treated when they go to hospital, says Tamás Dénes, President of the Hungarian Residents Association. Doctors and expert health workers are moving abroad because of low wages and poor working conditions.
Xpat Opinion: 64 Hungarian Doctors Against ‘Gratitude Money’ Demand Healthcare Reforms
- 28 Dec 2015 9:00 AM
- health & wellness
As doctors demand higher wages to end so called ‘gratitude payments’ and stop the emigration of health care personnel from Hungary, a centrist columnist thinks that ending the system of illegal payments in hospitals is close to impossible.
In a Facebook initiative, 64 doctors are asking Hungarians to forward their petition in emails addressed to the Ministry of Human Resources. They demand the ...
World-Famous Hungarian Geneticist Endre Czeizel Dies
- 11 Aug 2015 9:00 AM
- health & wellness
Endre Czeizel, the world-famous Hungarian doctor and geneticist, has died at the age of eighty-one following a long battle with leukaemia in the early hours of Monday, his daughter told the state news agency MTI. Born in Budapest in 1935, Mr. Czeizel graduated at Budapest’s Semmelweis University of Medicine in 1959 and worked as a researcher at the National Institute of Public Health right up to ...
Hungarian Official Urges Highrisk Groups To Get Hepatitis C Test
- 29 Jul 2015 9:00 AM
- health & wellness
There are around 70,000 people with the hepatitis C infection in Hungary, 40,000 of whom need medical treatment yet only around 20,000 receive it, a health official said on Tuesday, which is World Hepatitis Day. Many patients are unaware of the actual moment they contracted the virus due to an initial absence of symptoms, Klára Werling, president of the national association of viral hepatitis ...
Residents Of Budapest Seek Refuge From Heat Wave In Baths
- 24 Jul 2015 9:00 AM
- health & wellness
Visitor numbers at six baths and water parks in Budapest were up by 23% in June compared to the same month last year, sales and marketing director of baths operator Budapest Gyógyfürdői és Hévizei Szilvia Czinege said. Since June, visitor numbers at baths and water parks in Budapest topped 60,000 on two separate weekends because of an early summer heat wave.
Synthetic Drugs: Hungary Is Sitting On A Ticking Time Bomb
- 13 Jul 2015 9:00 AM
- health & wellness
The recent disturbing rise in the consumption of cheap and unregulated substances known as “designer drugs”, which have recetly resulted in several deaths across the country, could mean that Hungary is sitting on a ticking time bomb and the country is on the edge of a new type of public health crisis, journalist Csaba Lukács writes in the daily newspaper Magyar Nemzet.
WHO: World No Tobacco Day, Hungary, 31 May
- 29 May 2015 9:01 AM
- health & wellness
Eliminating the illicit trade in tobacco would generate an annual tax windfall of US$ 31 billion for governments, improve public health, help cut crime and curb an important revenue source for the tobacco industry. Those are the key themes of World No Tobacco Day on May 31 when the World Health Organization will urge Member States to sign the Protocol to Eliminate the Illicit Trade in Tobacco ...
Xpat Opinion: “Gratitude Money” To Be Decriminalised In Hungary
- 16 Apr 2015 11:45 AM
- health & wellness
Cash bonuses for doctors and nurses have been standard practice for the past sixty years in Hungary and were tacitly tolerated as the only way to compensate for the low salaries prevalent in the Health Service. The new Penal Code however, defined such payments as a breach of the law, but the Ministry of Human Resources empowered hospital managements to authorise the receipt of such payments.
Budapest Transport Centre Dismisses Three In Spa Scandal
- 10 Apr 2015 9:00 AM
- health & wellness
The Budapest Transport Centre (BKK) has fired three members of its top management, news website Index reported on Thursday. The tabloid Blikk reported that the three men chose to hold an official BKK management meeting at a luxury wellness spa.
Hungarian Health Care Workers Earn 1/10th That Of Their Western Counterparts
- 9 Mar 2015 8:00 AM
- health & wellness
The people need to understand that we are not talking about how much residents or expert doctors make, but whether they will be treated when they go to hospital, says Tamás Dénes, President of the Hungarian Residents Association. Doctors and expert health workers are moving abroad because of low wages and poor working conditions.