Over one million Hungarian without GPs?
Over one million people live in areas in which general practitioners’ positions are currently vacant, a deputy of the opposition Democratic Coalition said on Friday, blaming the government’s “ill-advised measures” for the situation.
Zoltán Komáromi, who is the opposition party’s shadow health minister, insisted that despite repeated warnings by the medical profession, “each measure of the Orbán government does more damage than good”, adding that GPs’ positions in small villages were being left vacant in increasing numbers, which “threatens a situation in which patients cannot receive emergency services, chronic patients will not be treated in a timely manner and screening programmes will be delayed.”
Rather than facilitating an immediate pay rise for health personnel, the government “implements various changes just to make a disastrous health situation even worse”, he said.
Komáromi insisted that 12 percent of GP’s practices, nearly 25 percent of those in villages, were not permanently filled. He said doctors from other practices were “filling in”, which meant that “if somebody gets ill on the wrong day, they will have to seek help elsewhere”.
Shortage of GPs alarming: DK said almost exactly one year ago. HERE is our article.
I can´t comment on the big picture in rural areas but personally I have been impressed with the possibility to see my GP without any delay, just walk in to the health center and wait 10-20 minutes and I can visit GP. Never happened in my home country, had book an appointment which was usually weeks away. If needed to see a doc instantly, it meant hours and hours of waiting at the nearest bigger hospital emergency room.
Just my personal experience living in a mid-size Hungarian town, the system to be able to just walk in and see you GP instantly is amazing in Hungary. I do not have private health insurance and I dont even feel the need to have one.
This is one problem, and the Orbán government is creating a second disaster and playing with the lives of the Hungarian population once more. As we know, all over the country (except Budapest and Pest county for now) this criminal government got rid of many emergency doctors/medical help in many places all around the countryside. There are not enough ambulances to react to this new situation. A MEP of MiHazánk complained about this new emergency system (he lives on the countryside) and the huge dangers for most people. Also, medical doctors complained about the dangers. Fidesz ignored it completely, as usual. In many areas they made a big mass, and they are not finished. Now the big replacement is implemented. The sad part is that many Hungarians are blind to reality, and also many conservative/right wing people in Western Europe think that Orbán and his gang are patriots and are different from their own liberal politicians. It is not the words they speak, but the deeds they do. Look at Meloni who scammed the people who voted for her.