Labour shortage: hospital care unit closed because all the doctors are on summer holiday
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There is only one place in Békés county where there is inpatient dermatology, but it closed for two weeks because the only doctor went on holiday and it cannot operate with only two resident physicians.
She was lucky to be examined
One of the readers of Népszava named László reported about a case that happened to her mother and which is very typical in the Hungarian health care system. László’s elderly mother wanted to be examined by a dermatologist after pustulates appeared on her arms, so she went to the Pándy Kálmán Hospital in Gyula where there is a dermatology department. However, at the department, she was told that everybody is on holiday, so she was redirected to the emergency department. There she was told to go to the dermatology department of the hospital where she learnt that the only doctor working there is on holiday, but he visits one of his patients every day so
provided that she is lucky enough, she might be examined.
She had luck, and after the medical examination finished, she had to remain in the hospital.Â
There she spent two weeks and thanks to the professional treatment she received her condition was improving. Even though she was far from healthy; however, she was told once that she has to go home because the head physician goes on a holiday abroad and the department has to be closed since it cannot operate with only two resident physicians. Though not László’s mother was in the worst condition