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DNH 2021 DNH 2021 · 15/05/2021
· Society

Hospital closures in Hungary? The ministry denies

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Photo: MTI

The government will “not close any hospitals”, the human resources ministry said on Saturday in the wake of opposition allegations.

The ministry referred to analyst Zsombor Kunetz, who had suggested that hospitals and outpatient clinics could be closed down under a recent circular by the ministry.

In its annual circular, the ministry “always asks health leaders what changes are needed in health services with a view to the actual situation,” the ministry said in its statement, adding that

“this has never resulted in hospital closures nor will it this time”.

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As we reported before, in April, opposition Democratic Coalition filed a request for public data with Hungary’s national health insurance fund NEAK on the number of elderly Covid-19 hospital patients who have died due to a shortage of ventilators. In an online press conference, DK’s parliamentary spokesman Zoltán Varga cited the deputy head of the Trade Union of Hungarian Medical Doctors as telling commercial news channel ATV that certain hospitals could not place their 65-70-year-old patients on ventilators because of all the young patients requiring respiratory assistance.

Varga said the coronavirus was “only an accomplice” in Hungary’s Covid fatalities,

insisting that it was primarily the government’s “anti-health-care policies of the last ten years”

that were to blame for the death toll. He said Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and members of his government would need to be held accountable “for the tragedies they have caused” if a new government came into power.

Ruling Fidesz said in reaction that “the Gyurcsány-led left wing” was once again attacking protective efforts against the coronavirus epidemic. The party said in a statement that DK’s claims were “nonsense and once again lashing up sentiments’. “The left wing started fabricating fake news, fake videos and fake extras and attacking the professionals involved in defence already during the first wave of the epidemic. Now they are once again doing the same.

We are asking the left wing at least not to hinder protection if they refuse to help,”

Fidesz said then.

Source: MTI

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1 Comment

  1. Anonymous says:
    16/05/2021 at 10:37

    They probably want to close them and build Football stadiums instead. I assume they will be built by the government “friends” and will cost twice than the market price.

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