Hospitals To Receive Extra Funding In Summer, Says New State Secretary
Budapest, July 1 (MTI) – Hungarian hospitals are set to receive extra funding in the summer, the newly appointed state secretary for health told MTI in an interview.
Gabor Zombor said his main task was to staunch and reverse the outflow of Hungarian health-care workers to the West.
He said a plan by the Hungarian Residents’ Association, which represents junior doctors, was worthy of consideration. Junior doctors have been leaving Hungary in droves to work in places like Britain. The association’s plan calls for scrapping gratuity payments and allowing patients to choose doctors while and introducing a centrally set minimum wage for specialists, Zombor, a former mayor of Kecskemet, said.
Gratuity payments are the biggest obstacle standing in the way of reforming the country’s health-care system, he said. Eliminating this is in the interest of the majority of doctors and patients, Zombor added, noting a proposal by the health industry’s chamber on introducing a career model for health-care workers.
Zombor noted plans to allocate extra one-off short-term funding to Hungarian hospitals from the reserves of the central health fund. He said that in the second half of the year a consolidation plan would be drafted with the aim of preventing the “reproduction” of hospital debt in the medium term.
He said that programmes aimed at improving public health with EU funding would continue.
Photo: MTI – Laszlo Beliczay
Source: http://mtva.hu/hu/hungary-matters
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