A Hungarian doctor saves lives in New York for only 14 dollars per hour

The reporters of The New York Times managed to get into the hospital where a Hungarian doctor saves lives in New York. The 6-minute-long, dramatic video they shot there was shared by the husband of the Hungarian doctor on Facebook, and Magyar Hang published the post.

In the state of New York, there were 196,655 infected people on Tuesday evening (1 pc of the population), and more than 10 thousand of them are already dead, Magyar Hang reported. 

Krisztián Köves, a film director and the husband of the Hungarian doctor who works in one of the city’s hospitals, shared some details about their everyday life in the Big Apple with a video The New York Times shot in the hospital where she works. You can watch it here:

https://www.facebook.com/koves.krisztian.karoly/videos/10221562981684706/

He says that on the evening of Good Friday, they watched a series on TV after his wife got permission to work in 12-hours shifts instead of 24-hour ones. However, she was constantly watching her phone, checking the WhatsUp group of the doctors working in the hospital and reading about the horrors that happened in the institution that night.

Mr Köves wrote that the mortality rate in New York is 6.7 pc. At the time, there were “only” 103,208 patients and 6,898 deaths. He added that the situation can become similar in Hungary if people are not careful. 

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Interestingly, his wife, Linda, does her job for only 1/3rd of the money because she is a resident as of yet. However, she does the same things as those who already have their certificate. 14 dollars equal two beers without a tip in New York. Mr Köves says that local doctors send residents into the frontline like in the war. And they do the extremely precise and, in this case, dangerous job of intubation during which a lot of viruses leave the patient’s body, so

even the smallest mistake by the people around them can result in catching COVID-19.

Mr Köves reads the messages of local Hungarians all day. Some of them complain because their relatives got stuck in the city and the Hungarian Embassy cannot help. Others say that one of their relatives died from the disease. Meanwhile, others say that in Hungary, people are not taking the measures implemented to halt the spread of the virus seriously. Moreover, some of them even think that now is the time to rebel against the system. The situation is similar in the USA. For example, some people go to hospitals, take photos, and post them on social media saying that doctors are only trying to cause panic; in truth, there is no problem.

This is because only a few know the reality since only a few work in close contact with the patients of the disease.

Mr Köves says that

local Hungarians regard his wife as an important source of information in New York,

so they turn to her with their questions each day, which she regularly tries to answer. In return, their friends try to send them what they can. For example, at Easter, they received an N95 mask which is in short supply even in New York.

Source: Magyar Hang