Hungarian health care: new tragedies can happen

Low wages, emigration and contagions spreading out from the hospitals. As we already reported, Hungarian health care system is underfunded; there are not enough doctors and nurses because they are extremely overloaded and underpaid. According to the Hungarian Medical Chamber, at least 6-700 billion HUF (EUR 2.25M) is missing from the system. Zoom.hu started to collect the problems of the system. Firstly, they examined the question of underfunding.

If we asked anybody in Hungary what the most important problems of the country are, they would surely include in their answer the depressing state of education and healthcare. Zoom.hu asked many experts who agreed that

the Hungarian health care system needs money as soon as possible.

Without more money, new tragedies can happen.

600-700 billion is missing

According to the Hungarian Medical Chamber, the Hungarian health care system needs at least 6-700 billion HUF (EUR 2.25M). Experts agree with this sum. The government spends 1,660 billion forints from the state budget on health care altogether. However, this is clearly not enough. Experts state that the financial support of the state does not meet the demands.

It would be demagogy to claim that the government ruins the health care system intentionally. However, there are clear signs that

the decision makers are not competent enough.

Imre László, former director of Szent Imre Hospital, has been examining the question of financing health care for years. He states that the most crucial problem is that nobody does impact measurement regarding the money spent on health care.

The health care system has become distorted

One of the most critical problems of the health care system apart from underfunding is that the financial support provided by the state