Foreign students shocked by the quarantine system in Hungary

Even though the groupmates of the Iranian student at SOTE voluntarily went to St. Ladislaus Hospital to be tested for coronavirus, the hospital refused to conduct the test. The students were concerned because they all had direct contact with the Iranian student who was later found out to be infected with the coronavirus, reports Index.

An anonymous foreign pharmacy student told Index that paramedics knocked on the front door of his home on Saturday at dawn. They had him sign a paper written in Hungarian and told him to pack up as he was needed to be taken to the hospital. According to the student, no one explained to him what was going on exactly, nor did he receive information from the paramedics because they did not speak English very well, and no one had informed them in advance about the situation. According to the pharmacy student, they did not even conduct the test until much later in the morning.

The student said that he and his groupmates were placed in 3 and 6-bed rooms in spite of their request to keep them separated even from each other if it is possible.

The hospital claimed that there were not enough rooms, so they needed to put 2-5 people in one ward.

Their groupmate who was waiting for his results in a 6-bed ward has tested positive for the virus. He was quarantined on Saturday night around 11 o’clock, and the new case was confirmed by the government on Sunday morning.